Voice of Time

you loved me but now the tide subsided
was once a soul you adored and confided
what happens to the voice of time,
as it whispers its solemn secrets
past my senile ears,

saying cherish the ones you love
for I will take them away,
and love the ones He treasures
for it is they who I cannot slay,

everything in time will pass,
you were not meant to stay,
and never say love's sacred words,
if they were not meant forever,

for love is not love, truly, if in time,
it too shall pass and severe,

listen to the murmurs of your heart
tis a language known to all,
but know no sooner do you ignore its voice
the louder it shall call,

louder and louder,

till its listener hears no longer,
deaf, to love and life, dead
even as the voice of truth grows stronger.
deaf, to love and life.