Time, Imagine Me Elusive

She said she was flirting with time

As she stripped off her clothes and dove into dark water

That reflected the night sky

Like she was swimming through the milky way

But I never understood the phrase

I have no love for time

As it ticks away silently

Stealing sacred moments

Without us realizing it

Until it’s too late

I will not flirt with time

Will not lull it into a false sense of security

With gentle caresses and whispers in the ear

Just to cut it loose in the end

Because I treat others as I’d like to be treated

And I don’t want to be left dangling on a string

So I look time in the face and say

I’ll outrun you or die trying

I’ll claw my way through

As if it could end any other way

Or never end at all

But I’d rather go out battered and bruised

Having felt the adrenaline and the pain

Then to lie by your side

And welcome you with open arms

Without any scars to show for it

She said she was flirting with time

But I’d divorced myself from the concept

Long ago