Sweet Waste Of Time

Time is wasted sweetly in your presence

Time is wasted sweetly with indifference

Time is wasted sweetly in your time

For you are my 'sweet waste of time'

No favour past that cannot last

No smile too sweet to beguile

I know your style

Is old trod and tiring

The sentences worn like a pair of oversized teeth

Your smile less Hilary Clinton

More Esther Rantzen

There's something sweet in absence

Wasting time

Useless time is always the most precious

There is no pause

No waiting in a queue for someone to arrive

You are here but quaintly 'absent' I surmise

Your BIG TEETH a giveaway diguise

I imagine you smile at funerals

Or when you're in discomfort

Or dispair

I am tempted to stop the nothingness of wasting

And ask 'Is anybody there? '

The minute cliicks

And swallows up much more than a dime

Your indolence is costly

Your a lazy wasteful WASTE FULL of time.

Yvette m smith

poem by Yvette Smith
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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