Life and Time

Scribbling names on sands of time
Written through sorrows and pain
Inscribed too with love and joy
Many places and faces seen
held for a while, and moving on

Traipsing on, leaving foot prints
On receding memories
Yesteryears fast moving on
Away, away into horizons
Behind, pushed back by time

Forward we go, never pausing
Ticking clocks merciless
Prod our back with many frowns
As we try to dig our heels
On porous highway silt

Broken may the timekeeper
But never the time master
Awry or neat life can be
Or as tipped-over chess boards
but there is no pause on life-roads.