What is Time?

Time.

What is it really?

Is it really just a ticking of a clock,

an indication of the day?

Is it really just a reminder,

something to be taken for granted?

Does it move ever too quickly,

or too slowly?

What is time?

Is it a sound telling us

when to start,

when to end?

No.

Time is all of these,

yet none of these

all at once.

Time is ever changing,

it moves,

breathes,

flows like the wind.

Time is a boat,

taking us in for a ride,

floating on, ever slowly,

on the water called life.

Time is a conductor of music,

telling us when to start, when to end,

when to move more quickly,

when to start again.

Time is a rare diamond,

every second as precious as a single star

in the sky.

Time brings change.

It shows us, ever so slowly,

how to live life,

how quickly to move,

how much we change

over such a short period of it.

Time is essential,

without it, where would we be?

We wouldn’t change,

we wouldn’t age,

we wouldn’t move faster, slower,

we wouldn’t be pressured,

we wouldn’t really be living.

So what is time?

It is all,

yet also none of these,

all at once.

Reviews

[Farrah]

Great job Nikolean :-)! I liked the last lines "So what is time?
It is all,
but also none of these,
all at once."

[Nikolean]

Thank you!

[Farrah]

Anytime :-)

[Dani The Unreviewed]

I like this piece. It got me thinking about time... Really well done. Keep it up.

[kattebel]

This is really good- it has a nice flow to it, and it's worded very nicely. I feel that I'm not a poetic sort of person, but I really enjoyed this!

[marcus]

I've been struggling to write my own poem about time, I like yours it's quite good!!

[Nikolean]

Thanks! Feel free to message me if u need any help!

[marcus]

thanks!, there are just so many different ways to approach it...

[Brittany Zedalis]

How I sometimes wish I could live without time constantly being tracked. I love the comparisons you made here, especially with the boat.

[Nikolean]

Thank you, I was actually a little unsure about that one

[Brittany Zedalis]

Well, I'm glad you posted it.

[Jonathan M Bednall]

I really enjoyed this, I don`t want to repeat from Luna C has already said but I have to agree about the comparisons. The part that starts "Time is a conductor of music" was fantastic as this really got me thinking...very good indeed.

[Ilerah]

Really moving, well written, obviously your passionate about your writing.

[Nikolean]

Thank you very much