Seeds

In time, what will matter -

With time, what has changed

Instances just scatter

Long hours all estranged 

Left gathering all that isn’t here

Like the hair behind my ear -

One more year to tuck away

Vigilantly, though I know

Each hour will always show

Years compile in every day

One more time, let us find what matters -

Undertake impossible tasks

Life is full of all that shatters

Indeed, both hearts and masks

Kept putting them back together

Evading such stormy weather 

Try to unlearn all these things -

How to live just to appease 

Eat your heart out, drink the breeze

Pull and cut these worn out strings

All this time, this is what mattered -

Scattering seeds to watch them grow

Softly repairing all that’s tattered 

I’ll stop to watch the sky glow 

Not to fret over time we waste

Gazing at things we never faced

Time continues either way -

I'll gather it here around me

Marching on to twenty-three

Eternity compiling every day