Ghastly shadows crowd the alley;
The sun sinks into the sky.
A vast consuming darkness
Fills the space twixt you and I.

A thousand turns of the hourglass
Can’t rewind to the time before,
When things could have gone quite differently,
But that’s a time beyond locked door.

Things might have gone quite differently,
A toss of a coin, a chance to speak,
But turns of events had another plan,
Leaving us separate, weary, and weak.

And now time is turning,
Another day has gone past.
The time gone by is farther now,
But memories will always last.