The Time Keeper

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I spent most of yesterday in my beloved Brighton. It only takes an hour on the train from London, Victoria and I can get to Victoria in about 30 mins from where I live. As I am not really up to much travelling at the moment, it is an easy journey to a delightful place and a guaranteed lovely day (whatever the weather).

Yesterday was like summer and I really enjoyed my usual stroll on the beach until meeting up with old friends to catch up over a few beers later.

THE TIME KEEPER

Keeper of my time since the day

I first saw you, a beauty to the eye

more splendid than royalty, riding

on a white unicorn in pastures green

mountains or gently rolling hills,

Child of Avalon, Queen of Hearts,

carried on wings and a prayer

like wildly flowing hair in chariots

of fire

Keeper of my time since the day

I first heard you sing songs making

heaven ring out with such hopes

of spring, joys only summer days

can bring, dreams that autumn

cannot fulfill or winter kill, whatever

any God may have in mind for us,

left free to choose, for good or ill,

always

Keeper of my time since a day

I first followed you in a storm,

shared the violence of a passion

equal to death's own, nor less

a rage to live than ever stirs in me,

envious of rider-unicorn a place

in eternity, riding, rearing or simply

left to graze, my fickle mistress,

Lady of the Hours

Keeper of our tides in history,

the sea, the sea ...

  

Copyright R. N. Taber 2004