Day changes to night without a whimper
Another day of time I can’t retrieve.
The thief of time blithely filching the hours
From me, a felon that I never see.
I once had youth, my heart was young as spring.
Where all life’s offerings were there for me.
But now the yoke that once connected things
Has now become a distant memory.
Here I am in the autumn of my life
Clinging like a withered leaf on a tree
As the setting sun again turns to night
And the purloiner robs again from me.
How long must I suffer this living death?
Until the thief of time steals my last breath.