Escape

The passage of

time ravages everything

with an inexhaustible

pursuit of a

temporary permanence

where a decade

passes as only

a moment over

and over again

never ending as

this resolve to

relinquish to fate

that which is

hers just

a by-product

of whatever love

is or isn’t

how to escape

moments that remain

unavoidable

but

steadfast

life a simple

impulse now

shuffling along with

no awareness of

what was lost