Lost To Time

I had a girl for company. She answered to the name, Time. It was love at first sight; who else could've a girl like mine? Moments we lived in, were dreams We spoke through thoughts, no words to tell. She was a pretty witch & I was cast under her spell.. An elixir in flesh and bone; her voice thrilled me, her warmth filled me. My skin longed for her touch, enticing; a moment's caress can surpass eternity. Lady Luck roared, my aims soared; I had aspirations now. I got used to Her appraisals; drunk on her fortunes..& how! My aims soared, my demons roared, "She's wasting your life away!! Share your life with some better lass and ditch her, without delay." Thus my gal Time, I did show the door. I then sought ambition's hand. Success & fame, all went and came; for them, I was a one-night-stand. Smashed by sadness, I searched for company. Looking afar,'twas Time, I could tell. She walked alone, roaming in solitude. Was I missing, in her life as well? And so I called out to her, "Blinded by ambition, our love I did kill. These wounds I'd like to heal, so we can be lovers still.." Desperation drove me after her. Untrodden paths, my feet did pound. I felt, she was just a mirage: why did she not turn around? Blind to all around me, I stumbled, on objects unknown. And fell tumbling, towards a stream, where to me, my thirst was shown. Exhausted, leaden limbs dragging myself to the edge, I drank. Thirst quenched, I looked in to see a face staring back.. I took a closer look to see: alas, it's my own image. Fingers worn out by fatigue. A face ravaged by age.. Then I felt my own weight on me; my body defeated, paralysed. 'twas then, that Time came to me; It was her all along, I realised. "Oh, what a fool, you've been. With your eyes, could you have not seen? That I'm time, itself, past, present, and what is to be; forever young, if with me, you had always been.." "When you had me, you had all of time; to chase ambitions, night and day. Erase absolute blunders, at a moment's passing! For time was yours, here to stay.." "Don't you know time and tide, wait for none?. When you left me, you wasted time away. So when you started chasing me again, did you expect, forever young, you'd stay?" (an older poem rewritten)