Of residues...

Time is arrogant enough
Deaf to human words
Never does it learn,to
Freeze in the moment
Some more of life
That,days had measured
Goes down the worth
Matching steps with time
And some of it lies
In the distance of expense...

The summers spent,bathes
In another day's dirt
The sudden growing up
Costing an entire boyhood
The sighs and laments
Masked,beneath a half-smile
A couple of the hair strands
Greyed,lacking green
Somebody goes by,whispering
Time's losing to tariffs...

Someday,somewhere,somehow
All of it will end
Whatever had remained,of
Days of a life
Amidst the thick swarm of names
The name will last,of residues.....