A poem about love and age by David Tombale: The hourglass

The hourglass talks about whether love can survive over time, as memories fade and age begins its work on the body. 

The hourglass

Trickling down the hourglass come
these moments, come this chance,
as she declines my hand,
as the clouds go swimming past,
my heart has run away with you,
it’s stolen sunshine from the gloom,
kisses by my daddy’s swimming pool
and I will lay with you,
I’ll steal those worries from your lips,
catch those random thoughts that flit
like birds around your mood.

I have loved a woman with tenderness
while time remains, as love acclaims
I have loved you even as I age.