Fred

nothing is really kept

you know,

not even time 

 it might be free, I think

I don't know when it started

I can guess when it ends, though

  I will never truly know

I am trapped

 for now

Counting the days like they're presents

waiting for time to ask her fee

...maybe we've known

the gift was forgetting

remembering is a nightmare...

time is not free

everyone pays

and life is costly

Author's Note

Reviews

[Pete]

we're all prisoners of time. all i know is that there never seems to be enough of it. as my muse thoreau wrote long ago, "As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

[Davidgeo]

Time and eternity are the same things, as I think Mr Davey T was getting at there. This induces a question regarding the nature of free will and personal identity. Beyond existing, feeding ourselves and propagating the species... most of our current shared reality is completely made up to take our mind off the fact that most of us are useless in an absolute sense, we are completely replaceable and most of our "skills" are not unique in anyway... we work to create more work so we can work some more in most cases. So, what are we really doing here? Pretending to be doing something here in most cases? This is modern reality when 8 billion people are trying to do basically the same thing (find purpose). Identity crisis is common in America for this reason, we even have our name for it... "the mid life crisis". It doesn't really happen outside of America or western society n general... the rest of the world is too busy dealing with real reality. We are privileged with our own unique set of normalized mental disorder.