Don't want expensive presents
Would rather share
What it is already bared
Walk by both the faces
Still and turbulent races
Thoughts more clear
A path to steer
Day by day
Hopes with care to stay
Talk of misdemeanours
Or exclusions - faraway
Long lost conversations say
Or better wow; find words of now
More worthwhile
You and I to softly smile
Simple complications
Debates of long passed stations
Hang on for a while
Wait just a moment won't you
Debates they care, don't they
Care for a victor either way
Why then (sic)
Is it in any way nostalgic
To wear a stripy scarf
Or a bead on a wrinkled wrist
To choose again for time
To be of value; time
The essence of being
The chance to gather
Disparate thoughts
Placed above the sterling
Time; way above the sterling
Way above the tarnished garnered coin
Don’t want expensive presents
If in any way that brings resentment
Of what is already spent
Talk from far off places
Stairways & pretty faces
Climb to these elevated floors
With one door
And one window stay
Elopers with a care to play