One-Way Street

One-way street
       This ruler called time
Though memory,
      While an illusion,
            Can seem as real
As blood,

      And learning
Can be a coach to cheat
            The future.
It can teach the veteran
      To play smarter
When the physical
            Of unbounded youth
      Is robbed by time.

Otherwise,
      A one-way street
Is this ruler called time.


For Conversations With Walt
Denis J. Kelly
May 17, 2011