How Can Time Travel Without Me In Tow? Poem by Mark Heathcote

How can the night befall into starless shadows?
If I-hold just-one in my heart as a guiding torch.
How can darkness descend and stop like a tornado?
Or fall through a trapdoor - if I'm on your porch.

How can time travel without me in tow?
Am I not a part of its feathered falling arrow?
How can the wind leave my wings, my bow?
Leave without the one who caused my sorrow.

How can my heart just blatantly be stopped?
Did-I-not love you enough? Did-I-not armed
With my pen not write to you many a love song.
Wronged, am I now to fall stone-like aplomb.

Lord, when will I see fresh spring flowers again?
Catch those blossoms lost in their ragged fall.
Lord, when will I see that morning star attend?
Bestowing-light-on-me it's eternal-friend.