Time Please!

Just an attempt to come to terms with the passage of time...

 

Time has a healing touch

Eases away pain

With its embalming caress

While it passes by

Fades away trauma

Buffers shock and wounds

 

Time creates memories

Evokes nostalgia

Lends vintage charm

Nurtures and matures

Comes to a standstill in moments of epiphany

 

Time flies imperceptibly

Does not seem enough

Slips out of our fingers

Can’t be clasped

Nor held at bay

 

Yet time hangs heavily

When there isn’t much to do

It is a nightmare in sleepless anxiety

When listlessness torments

It creeps like a snail

 

 Time creates chasms

Between generations

In relationships

Between hearts

Changing lifestyles and tastes

 

Time evolves beauty

Greater depths of understanding

Or etches cruel lines and wrinkles

Marring the radiance of youth

It withers and makes frail

 

Ruins bear witness

To the ravages of time

Mere shadows of the past

Evoking forgotten tales and melodies

Resonance of long lost echoes

Buried in the elapsed years

 

 

‘In time’ is effective

‘On time’ is optimum

‘Within’ time is efficient

‘Out of time’ is irrelevant

‘With time’ is adapting

Keeping pace with change

 

 

Time taken is spent

Time lived is cherished

Time lost is regretted

Time saved is gained

Time given returns

Time out game is over!

  

Time can make or mar

Let’s move ahead with time

Or beyond its constraints

Reviews

[None]

You really have done "Time" justice here in your beautifully worded poem. You really showcase your talent here with every carefully chosen and placed word. I really enjoy the various ways you play with time wording in your third and second to last stanzas. A powerful ending as well. Every line from start to finish is extraordinary! This is going right to my favorites--right on time!

[Tania Leigh]

It is amazing, the power on the intangible....

I am fascinated with time, and this poem gives lots of food for thought.....very well done :-)

I love the way you changed the rhythm with the stanzas that define time and the phrases about time...those stanzas sped up, and then the original rhythm resumed with the closing one, which held a good piece of advice.

[R J Askew]

Enjoyed this, though its a timeless subject, as it is a subject we all wrestle with frequently. We can all have strong feelings about time for different reasons, yet it has no feelings to us at all. Maybe it's best not to think about it. But I'm not sure that's possible.

[Pitta S Dev]

great piece....a truth

[Going...going...gone!]

We all wish we had time...for this or that or the other thing.....
When we run out of time...we rue it.

But isnt time meant to be so...wanted yet not got?
Isn't it supposed to be ethereal...so near yet so far?!

Time...undefined, undefinable...and yet captured in its entire essence in these few words......

Moving piece...Awesome!

[saint]

GREAT analysis,with such flavored style!!Time as any abstract noun has always been a vital dimension of the sphere!!yet it has its own dimensions all together!!and so many..
some known,some unveiled by you,with amazing apt!
rightful justification to the biography of time,i wish 'TIME' cud actually read english!! hehe ;)
ur a born writer..

[Kathleen Marie]

Beautifully done. Thank you!

[Lady Of Darkness]

All we have is time or do we..
Beautiful write.

[Floating on the feather..]

Time, Time, Time.... The more you try to clasp it between your immortal fingers, the more it slips away. And when you want the tyrant time to just go by, it squats beside you, promising to never go away.

I suppose you have more or less covered every aspect of time.... I love the way you have fastidiously chosen the most appropriate and just words to describe "time".

Excellent!!!

[Blackbirdsong]

This is a wonderfully written piece and the time you've taken to craft it really shows. I really love the thoughtfulness you've put into this and the way you invoked the various ways that time dominates our lives. Just so you know, my time reading this work was definitely well spent. :)