The Gift is Not a Given

 

The Illusion of Time

Is the essence of one's existence

For we are born to believe

That we will live forever

The Essence of a Dream

Is that we can achieve

Whatever we strive to obtain

There are no boundaries; only infinity

The Infinity of Love

Allows us to care for many

For time is not the issue

Love is but a passage of our reality

The Passage of a Lifetime

Is but an integration of each

Combined for as long as we are given

For nothing, especially time, is limitless.

Reviews

[Aspiring Angel]

Well believe it our not I have finally made it to your site. This write reminds me so much of one of mine that I have in file but have not brought to the Cafe. Mine much longer but essentially saying the same. We tend to think of time as ours alone but it is predestined at our beginning to find its ending. What comes in the between is of our choosing and right now the Human race is fast running out of what we call time. I am seeing my own thoughts in your writing and if I have not read you as you intended, please let me know.

You have been sweet to visit me several times. I enjoyed your profile and learning a little more about you. I will be back.

Hugs,
Lesa

[Ladysue]

Oh boy this is such a great truism. Very insightful. A profound right. Wonderfully done.

[Walkingblind]

Wow I like this piece it's very observant and insiteful made me think
on each line and point. So much thought in this poem great choice
of subject and I bet it jumped right out like it does when we read it.
Great poem

[alyssa]

I love it!! i makes me think!! I really really ike it!! soo well written!!!!! keep up the good work and keep writing!!!
hugs
alyssa

[Patient Poet (Yos)]

Very deep thoughts on that poem, I read it twice and still I feel that most of it will remain a secret for me, I enjoy it . So many things you included in that poem are not what usually expected and thats make the poem stronger and deeper :

For we are born to believe That we will live forever - Did we?

There are no boundaries; only infinity - life full of boundaries, while love make us stronger to pass

For time is not the issue - isn't time an issue? there is no limitless TIME

Thank you Yossi

[Rain]

Loved this piece. Great insight. I wrote a piece called "Time." where I damned it for tricking us while we were young, letting us believe we would live forever. This is a very intelligent write. Rain..

[Nancy Lee Shrader]

Very nice

[Emily Rose]

Ah, what a nice sentiment. I really like your musings on the limitlessness of time; you cover a lot of philosophical ground in just one poem, and thread a lot of different elements throughout your exploration. Time, Infinity, Love, Dreams... you've created a good melange of all these things. My only little thought is that there might be room for some more development here :-)

[raining]

Yes we are plunked down into the middle of infinity, like it or not, so we might as well like it. I like your ideas in this poem. Or perhaps not ideas as such, but the discovery involved in putting the poem together.
Time is an illusion, says it all giving the poem its momentum. Saying that realizing there is no time means that. "for we are born to believe we will live forever" is that a childhood realization which is dispeled? Or the begining of what you believe is a larger reality. Many believe in a limited rather than limitless universe. This poem seems to believe in both. Am I right? Love redeems? Yes good, just by saying i believe in something, does it make it actually true? I am not being negative, or positve and i really think this is a well constructed poem. thanks raining

[Emily B]

My daughter wrote down a conversation she overheard a couple of weeks ago. The first gentlemen said something to the effect that we are immortal. And the second returned, "That we are immortal in our own bodies until God is finished with us."

We are never ready for that end. A thought-provoking write.