A Matter of Time.

Time does not bargain;
  it has no sympathy,
 no conscience.
Time does not stop
  to smell the flowers
to watch the sunset.
 Time does not give
quarter .
    Time can only take;
memories,
     friends
       lovers
          Nothing is sacred
Noone is spared.
It ticks on in measured
 constancy.
  It marches through our lives.         
 Trickles through our souls
  and our hands      
    as we helplessly watch it
slip away with our
      youth,
        middle age,
          golden years...
   Nothing is sacred.
   Noone is spared.