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# Bending Time
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/bending-time/
- Published: 2017-08-05T21:49:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-21T15:44:55.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Love and Romance, #Conflict and Reckoning, #Love and Devotion, #Poetry Marathon 2017

What's left when a kiss is o'er and through,  
When limbs once-woven unfurled?  
I still see kinks from me-and-you,  
Bear the gravity of our world —  
  
Still, you dare to take a simple love,  
Compare it with ill-fated time,  
Withdraw from this curious treasure trove,  
Treat you-and-me as mere past-time?  
  
Words fail  
Emotions fail  
Love fails  
Time fails  
  
There is The World,  
And then, there is the world:  
  
Control versus freedom  
Love... and nonsense-rhyme  
  
The sense that makes sense makes no sense to you;  
Though I follow your thinking, the logic's askew —  
  
And I'll suffer while you do as you do,  
And I'll love even while your love you eschew,  
And I'll love, remain while you bid 'adieu'...  
And I'll help you acquire a wife, anew...  
  
While I hold the days close  
When you held me so close  
  
When words won  
And hearts won  
And love won  
And time won  
  
And I won time with one  
Whom I always loved