Time and my love

Seasons have whizzed past; countless pace

Alma mater is too far away even to be dreamed.

I have grown in time, but my mind is caged

In those days where I was guided and lectured

By pa who had no streak of grey on his head

Palmed with firm muscles of a farm hand.

Mom had not grown too

Out of a cocoon that she knows.

She had an only son who has become a gypsy

Like a picnicker he comes home with the frost

Leaving her thoughts and the land parched

For longer than cactus in the sand can endure. 

Life and time has changed even the gypsy boy.

Supple muscles have sagged in time

The dark forests are now molested

With continuos grazing and lumbering.

Fishes have fled from the rivers to wallets

Education has driven people away from home

The wheel is spinning ever faster; I am on it too

But, I first need to let me know time has changed.

In that confusion I met my lady charm

Who made my dreams even more carefree

A smile on her face brings back past glories.

She makes me live in the milieu I belong

I am growing older to be young again. 

Dedicated to my love and my life