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!

[Jazmyne]

this is one of the best...i usually dont get water in my eyes when reading..but i did with this one. it kind of struck home with the whole time thing. you never know when someones time is up. i really like the picture on top. this one is going in my fav spot. im glad to have read this. cant wait to read more from you. thanks!

[vanishing]

this is One of the best poems I have read on time
loved it, your words flow from the heart and soul
embracing time in perspective
makes the reader feel what you are feeling at the moment
Speaks wisdom on many levels.
Thank you for sharing such.
Regards.

[Cynthia Barrick (CHING..]

Excellent! I do believe you have captured every compassionate feeling through the time of reading this TOO AWESOME!!
CHINGCHING

[Forest Green]

I can hear the pendulum swing now...very good, thorough look at time and its crucial yet troubling effects.

Excellent...

Daniel

[SweetPeachesAlways]

What a beautifully constructed tribute to Time! Father Time would be so proud! Very appropriately worded. Very conceptually prepared and very masterfully written. Great job! Thank you for taking the time to share it with us! I loved it and, in fact, I am going to save it in my Favorites and read it again, when I have the time!

[The Tao of Bri]

Such deep truths so eloquently stated.. I lovethe richness that the poem enails and the lessons it evokes!

[Shelly Wiseberg]

Great poem the hands on life's clock ticks every second, minute and hour on our time's watch, live each moment with joy and happiness, it can move at a rapid pace so catch all the moments and embrace everything, Shelly

[Michael X]

pondering the notion of time certainly draws the reader to a heightened state of thought,
your words a engaging, and delving, as well the way you bring new perspectives to light, like,
well like the entire piece which is knowledgable in way of general insight and understanding
the dynamics of the passing of time, the measure of existance, the last line is the cap,
because it's true, "Time Please".. a perfect title, which gives the entire image an abstract,
artistic outlook, punctuated by well chosen wording, the form conforms to your thoughts
beautifully, and i found this poem to be a pleasure to read, real food for thought, thanks

[Mayukh Das]

Simple yet.....very involving.....
all i can say is.... 'twas a beautiful poem.....

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Time...the enemy for most mortals is very well represented here. Extremely clever in its delivery. My goodness you are a terrific writer and every writer is better for skilled observation, and you have that in abundance.
"Ruins bear witness To the ravages"...not only ruins bear witness...so does our skin when time marches accross our faces!
Great literary piece...
Helen :)