Over the years

[ritwiksadhu33]

Hi nibbed,
              Thanks for the suggestions. I'll probably edit it sometime today.

Over the years

Over the years
  Run 100 meters in 8 seconds
  Time travel
  Teleport
  Forget yourself in the past
  At the bottom of the ocean                                                   I want to flip lines 5 & 6
Or just your keys

Over the years
    The world grows old
    And melts around the sun
Over the years the worlds are bright                                        I want to eliminate the Over the years in this line                                    
    And feel newer

Over the years the peace of these times will fade
    We will look at its hypocrisy in wonder.

Over the years
    We will have sufficient mathematics at
    Our disposal
    To mimic the doodles of infants
    In thin air
Build a world of nonsense and revel in its generality.

Over the years
    The people tend to get bored and leave
    The books pile up                                                                  how about just "the book pile up"?
    The room logs too many hours of stillness.

Over the years the words
  Tend to return
And fears tend to be realized
We think all that we can
   And over the years it may even be true
Once or twice
    For a few men or more.

Over the years
    Too many lost/found
    Too few here/now


Over the years
  A poem of a million lines
  A war lasting two centuries
  A desert  covering a continent
  A love at birth and another before death
  A man with a trillion dollars
  The meek inheriting the earth and an earthworm.

Over the years they are no longer in ones
But twos or threes or tens
   The decade of shining skies
   The four years of good harvest
    Five of good rain
The year of the mother and the child
Dragon reindeer and unicorns

A year is a long time untouched
And grows over the walls out into the sun
Over the years
We have grown tall and our years short

Over the years                                                           I like the change up in this stanza
    Sleep through
Fight through
    Dance through
Listen through

  But a year is a long moment
In that we remember
More than one thing
About it
If we were friends.

Over the years
A ship sails and reaches port
A sailor is drunk on the wine of courage
And then just wine
Sour vintage
Sleepy over the years.
The years blow his sails
And he pledges a year to the ocean -
A day to salt
And rest to waves.


nice poem. I enjoyed it.
it kept me moving through
and that was good. i like the variety
in the structure, too

thank you for the read


-nibbed