<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Time has a way</span><div><font size="4" style="font-size: 22px;"><br></font><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Time has a way of flowing by — </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">a stream curling and meandering</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">like your hair when we first met</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">My friends are getting old</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">I know we are just one </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">bad fall away </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">It was a simpler world </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">back then. We took </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">one thing at a time.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">We didn’t know what </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">we had when we had it.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Tomorrow was around the corner.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">We ate what we wanted,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">slept late, let the sun shine</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">in through the open window</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">When you go leave me </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">your leather jacket </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">with the silver buttons</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Maybe that book of poetry</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">you write in everyday</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">and those boots you wore</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">when you told the boss</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">just where he could go</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><br></span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- David Handsher</div></div></div></body></html>