When time was my ally
I could see you come and go
Without a care in the world

Enjoying your journeys
From here to there
And back

When time was on my side
I could count minutes and seconds
And not be scared
Looking forward
To new itineraries
Lips here, fingers there
And back

When time was an adjustable variable
I would feel its reality
And still decide to dismiss it

Now, the settings are upset
One word here, a sentence there
I know you won’t be back

Isabelle Audiger is a 62 year-old, published or self-published poetry and fiction writer, born in Normandy, France. In a previous life, she taught French and English in Canada, the UK, as well as France. Since 2011, she’s been writing, consistently and stubbornly, poetry, youth or adult novels together with short-stories, in French or in English.