Time will tell

   We all know the importance of time and how love and time works hand in hand. I had loved like it was my dying wish, maybe it was my dying wish, if Only I had known there would be more to you than meets all I knew, I never would have taken those hands that offered me something beautiful, I never would have let you take half of who I was and turn it into frozen goods.

     Two friends sat in a coffee shop, laughing,  smiling and enjoying the day like it wasn’t different from yesterday. There they were, Time was built like a god, whereas Love wasn’t. Time before he had left my home taught me the importance of planning. If only I was a model student, if only I had seen clearly, maybe all of this wouldn’t have happened.

     I looked at love, disappointment painted on her face, she didn’t really hide how much of life hurt her, she felt betrayed by humans she thought she knew, Love never spoke to anyone about being abused but time knew and so He saved her when he could.

    Time knew well of his importance, he carried himself so well he had nothing to be bothered about, as I watched him sit with love?I knew well that he thought of how much of a waste it was loving someone that’d bring you so much pain that You could no longer heal yourself from it. Time understood why Love was always in tears, hurting, silently vanishing, he could see the concealer she used to hide her bruises, each day he watched her, he wondered, why they took from him to make up for her only to end up breaking her, when his eyes left hers, it met mine. 

    Time pitied me yet he smiled, the kind that said,  “It seems like forever but you’d find yourself again, I’ve got your back, so trust me”. 

    Oh how I understood why he stayed next to love, why he never felt hurt when they took from him to build her constantly, because he knew, he knew when his student lied, cheated and did all things bad, he knew because he is an investor in all things human do and when he tried to stop their nonsense they had another tactic, so Time did what he could best, wait and hold on to Love ensuring she gets to have a swell of him whenever She could. 

    So I left, I let Time have her, so she could rebuild herself and as the days go, He will have her be prepared.

-EkelemeN