Time has slipped away, perhaps passing me in sleep
Torn pictures, faded memories and this mirror makes me weep
I gaze into my eyes, and all the years stare back unkind
The smiles have turned to hardened cries, that linger in my mind
Times lost far in memory now, no thinking them to dreams
The days run into one somehow, my time too short it seems
The happiness remembered, has now sadness in it's wake
As children we pretended, as adults it's all too late

Everything is... "used to be"... all is would've been
Nightmares come in view for me, to show what could have been
But time is such a fluid thing that pours like summer rain
It's memories, at times still sing their songs of love...
and pain
But don't think I regret my time, for that will not be true
It's only that it hurts my mind, the times not spent with you
I have no answers, no way back, to change sorrows decree
The knowledge I suppose I lack, lies waiting there for me

Time has slipped away you see, though there are hopes I keep
That you are well and think of me, that I am in your sleep
The years that you had been my love, still smiling back at me
From just that one old photograph, and remembrance of " we"...
See, you and I once were, and always will be in my dreams,
But time demands its cruel wage, emotion trapped there...
in between
I've known or thought I'd known for years, what fortune was to come
The winds of change have blown you see,
the crying has been done

Yes, time will slip away again, but I've no need to weep
The mirror shows me weary eyes, so I must try to sleep
And moments slip away... no matter now, the time is gone
This life I've lived too long I guess, too long the setting sun
But worry not for me my child, I've loved you all the while
Your ways were always calm and mild, your brightness was your smile
But looking in this frame the image chases me, so why
Does life play out it's ugly game,
as time has passed me by

Dean Evans
a long time a go in a galaxy far far away