Lost Time
In the future, you’ll say;
“We recorded passing periods
with nanoseconds and centuries
and how it wasn’t fazed by war,
desperation or the 1970’s.
We relied on it and one day it quit,
gave up and left without a trace,
can’t remember when exactly
but before now, somewhere in the past,
between when those two things happened.
We searched for it like we’d lost a pet,
put up posters and phoned around
but nobody had seen it in a while,
Samuel S. Williams is a Funeral Director by day and a Poet by night; he works, writes and lives in his native Cornwall