Year of the Water Dragon

2012 Year of the Water Dragon.

I was supposed to be able to travel time.

With fuel made from tachyon particles found in the Large Hadron Collider.

And keys to warehouses scattered across the space time continuum.

It was not always this way that I did not want to be "now."

I saw the fireworks on Lundi Gras evening again. Over the river.  I could not explain why they made me cry.

Or why I wished the time machine worked.

Some years it is not so much about who is here.

But about who is not.

I couldn't put her ashes in the river like I had planned.

And then it was over.