Time

You miss your mum,
you miss your dad:
too busy taking
the chances you had.

There was plenty of time,
you told yourself,
time for the next time,
if not for the first.

And the time slipped away
year by year,
May became December
in a blinked back tear.

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Down time,
leisure time,
holiday time,
working time
the time of your life:
the only time you didn’t have
was the time of day.

There was plenty of time
until there wasn’t.

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You miss them now,
didn’t miss them then,
always thinking
you’d see them somewhen.