Everything you love in your life
Your closest friends and family
Special places so familiar
The most intense sentiments
Even that innermost experience
You call yourself
Slip into the past
Never again to be seen or felt
Life feels like a sliding slippery stream
A stream of time that moves
From yesterday until tomorrow
Somehow passing through the present
Carrying it off to somewhere
A place we can never know
Life is a mystery
Its clues remain undecipherable
No matter how hard we try
And cling to life’s many things
We never can hold or grasp
Unto any of them
The feelings I have now
Are gone before these words
A struggle to capture some
Small part of my experience
Fails without any chance
Everything you love in life
Say goodbye to those things
Even memories fade
Leaving nothing in their place
Poem by Bruce Eisner March 6, 2012 Las Vegas, Nevada
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