Given time the inner eye of memory sees with softer reverie, as through a muslin curtain; softly veiled and far away - and how temptingly tranquil seem the waters of the past.
Given time lost minutes lengthen into hours, to long-remembered days, lost words that needed saying fall like petals in the rain Turning slowly in the air until they fade to dust at last.
Given time a distant haunting melody's translated into sighs birdsong at morning lilting like a glimmering of streams; and moments of reflection spill too swiftly through our hands.
Given time dry leaves fly through the chilly air and scatter in the sky summer will have her finery returned from green to gold, and snow will cover everything, like time's relentless sands.