Lonnie Hicks - Wrestling With Time

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Time and I are grappling as we have all my life. In my youth I tried to full-nelson her into telling me my future but she didn't comply. I spend many hours with her in my upstairs bed-room peering at video games; she waited patiently for me to get through this phase. The referee in this match I tried to bribe he refused but she gentle-stroked my brow and told me to play fair and be patient. I dreamed of having super powers and told her that was what I wanted; she smiled reassuringly saying 'Sure but you have to first overcome many barriers and prove yourself. Too many tests there it turned out for me. I asked her for luck but no luck. I tried arm-twisting on her but every fall I won I also lost another. It did not even look like the crowd was on my side. At times it even looked like my own family declined to support me. When I started to date Time threw down the dice snake-eyes and craps never a lucky seven. one step up and two steps back. I asked her at last for True Love and she said simply 'Look behind you.' turning I saw it was someone who had always been at my side living in my blind spot. Time smiled. Now it is Time against two in this match this has improved the odds. Not so much happily ever after, but we two in this round two are now a tag team; Time is sitting in that opposite corner, solo. Any day we'll will pin her to Life's Mat declare victory or not. In any event hope you will root for us because I assure you my friend Time knows your name too. Lonnie Hicks poemhunter.com/poem/wrestling-with-time/