Time’s arrow

‘Sent out of sight

Somewhere becoming rain’

We let the arrows go,

Fighting with all we have.

Never still,

Yet never quite fast enough.

We let memories fade

And think

Time cheats us.

But the arrow

Is always straight.

We are the cheats.

Sometimes a smile

Over the shoulder

Is all it would take.

Sometimes

The lifting of the veil of a girl

Looking, like us,

For rain.