Time the Preserver
Time the Destroyer

Both public and private
Schools my employer

Worked as a barback
Making the drinks

Worked as a tutor
Helping kids think

Worked at Moby ****
Making the bread

For decades and decades
She's in my head

I'm now alone
No wife in my bed

My sins are as scarlet
Will my poems be read?

Will the Silence be generous
After I'm dead?

Prayers for the future
And all left unsaid.

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