DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
Poem by Wade Newman
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
Wade Newman (Copyright 2023)
From the book “The Mortal Rendezvous” 2023
Not quite tranquil, I recollect and weigh
The night we bartered failing love for sex,
When it mattered less if you’d leave or stay,
Or which paramour came before or next.
I try to picture if that night it rained
Lightly or heavily or not at all,
If we stumbled home from a bus or train.
Naked in bed, each panting moment crawled
Deliciously till the clock’s glowing face
Erased an hour and each sweet stain
Eventually from our worn sheets faded.
Since then, all we once felt has been replaced,
Though I can’t quite measure what we traded,
What at the end we lost, or what was gained.
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If you would like to read my books of poetry, you may purchase them on Amazon under the seller, White Smudge Books. “The Mortal Rendezvous” (White Smudge Books), “Final Terms-Revised Version,” “East and West,” and “Poisoned Apples” (Pivot Press), and “Testaments” (Somers Rocks Press).