Wait! Poem by Kami Haha

Wait!

Rating: 3.5


Time waits for no one, as I have come to know...
It turns white petals into green leaves;
Lively green leaves into dead brown ones;
And even the flowers of autumn die under winter's sheet of white.

Now the sky us alive with color, as I sit at home.
And I am allowed, for but a moment, and illusion: Time is waiting for me.
But time deceives me, for soon the day and I must do to dreamland,
Where I meet the man of the hour, who is called Father Time.

I ask him why he plays such agonizing, deceptive games.
He doesn't answer, but instead points behind me.
There stands a gallant tree. 'So...' I ask impatiently.
Abruptly, the Tree of Life begins to change, with its leaves changing as Time passes around it.

Its leaves pinken, brighten to green, die in an instant, and its branches become snow covered sticks.
Time continues around the tree, until I look down and realize I am aging.
Father Time begins evaporate; 'Wait! ' I call, in a voice that isn't mine.
But the tree just falls, until it's nearly crushing me.
I awaken with a start, in a sweat, with a confused mind to keep me up throughout the night.

It is now I see the meaning:
Time stops for no one, and hears no man's 'Wait! '
Use your own tome wisely, for later it will be too late...

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