How could you call those little creatures Devils, did you mean that they were full of devilment.
They sound like lovely Spirit's that have come to make you smile, and then they are stolen by time, "Chronos" Loved the story they seem like some children I know but my children are never Naughty...Yours Ian.T

In Greek mythology, Chronos (Greek: Χρόνος) in pre-Socratic philosophical works is said to be the Personification of Time. His name in Greek means "time" and is alternatively spelled Chronus (Latin spelling) or Khronos.
Chronos was imagined as a god, serpentine in form, with three heads—those of a man, a bull, and a lion. He and his consort, serpentine Ananke (Inevitability), circled the primal world egg in their coils and split it apart to form the ordered universe of earth, sea and sky. He is not to be confused with the Titan Cronus.
He was depicted in Greco-Roman mosaics as a man turning the Zodiac Wheel. Often the figure is named Aeon (Eternal Time), a common alternative name for the god.
Chronos is usually portrayed through an old, wise man with a long, gray beard, such as "Father Time". Some of the current English words whose etymological root is khronos/chronos include chronology, chronometer, chronic, anachronism, and chronicle.

Apart from a slight cringe factor, which must be mostly me, I found this kind of irrepressible and engaging.

There seems to be an internal logic or progression problem in the lines
that could, at times I needed quiet harmony
send me to the epiphany of madness
the compression blurs the meaning
that could, at times [when] I needed quiet harmony
send me to the epiphany of madness

Great use of freeverse.