The trail of bitter-red burgeons On memory's swinging thorny shafts Through a squeeze of fog-covered petals, Gleam vivid lanterns of the past
In grace of the instant, Looping its song, The pendulum's whistle Casts now to before Rushing through history, Gone centuries' drops Get shattered to splashes On now's ethereal walls
Let wheels of ages come to a stand still, Stroke captured seconds with your hands Time is an artificial abstract Wound up by the mortal brain
What is the now if, being reached to, it slips the past, With a sticky moan being torn away by time?
When is the now if it's being wrapped by the restless mind In clouds of days that have passed by, or are yet to come?