When Time, relentless, marches on
Then Love, relentless, counts the years.
When Time expunges all that’s past,
Then Love reduces scars to tears.

When time, relentless, rips things down
Then Love, relentless, holds them still.
When Time releases every hold
Then Love recaptures every skill.

What Time, relentless, fells, revokes
Then Love, relentless, evokes all.
What Time disposes, dispossesses,
Let Love repose, possess the fall.

As Time returns the dust to dust
Then Love refines Time’s fetid schemes
For Time decays the last decay
But Love redeems eternal dreams.

Elizabeth Price, Team writer with Just a Minute. reprice@dragnet.com.au