Hands of time ( Retourne)

Hands of time ( Retourne)

Thoughts like old rags caught on barbed wire
Floating on fading memories
Winds of change clears away debris
The essential parts will remain

Floating on fading memories
Weary mind slowly turns away
Old thoughts and pains losing their sting
Oblivion comes within reach

Winds of change clears away debris
Slowly eroding the tired soil
Leaving the earth pure and renewed
A fertile ground for new life forms

The essential parts will remain
As building stones for the future
Disasters erased, forgotten
Swept away by the hands of time

Retourne: A Retourne is a French poetry form wherein repetition is used, employed. It consist of four quatrains (four-line stanzas), with each line having eight syllables. The trick is though that the first stanza's second line must also be the second stanza's first line, the first stanza's third line is the third stanza's first, and the first stanza's fourth line is the fourth stanza's first. Retournes can but do not have to rhyme.