Killing Time

What a waste of time wasting time is.

Killin’ Time

Killin’ time...

Wasting time...

Whileing the

time away

postponing all til later

Best not to act in haste

see ya’ later alligator

I’ve all the time

In the world to waste

Til one day…’later’ arrived

contrite and with hat in it’s hand`

My cavalier attitude ceased to survive

Time had made me

a much different man

Grey hair...

White whiskers…

Deep creases

“Sweet Jesus!”

An old man I’d come to be

I’d always measured time

So free and easy

Spending much of my time

On poorly parsed rhyme

Til’ one day I could quite clearly see

With heartfelt surprise

“Oh no!...It’s time that is taking

...The very measure of me!”...

Author's Note

Philosophy, essay, opinion, Observation? Darned If I know what to call it!