Clocks!

'It's not stop all the clocks'' as Auden said.
When telling of love once lost.
With the older ones among us.
In clear prime time view.
It's turn back those clocks.
Just a little bit.

Mind you just stopping them altogether seems.
A superb idea indeed.
However,

If time was stopped right now this minute.
My coughing cold and spluttering fit.
I would be stuck.
Stuck stranded,
Smack bang in the middle of it.

That's not what I want!
So we won't turn the clocks back now.
Maybe wait a little while.
When this cough and cold has gone,
I may even raise a smile.

Father time will soon descend.
Perhaps he will be my friend.
Switch the clocks back to seventy three.
Before the bad memories were created.
Need to be logical.
Keep in view.
That all the stupid things that I do.
Think of the fact that once was a wife.
Gave me nothing but trouble and strife.
Don't think I'd want to be a wife!
By ladylivvi1

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