TAKE THAT TIME

 

Time won’t come out to play

It won’t bargain

for a return trip

or make an exchange of

…a year, a week, a day

For any reason

No matter how devout

 

Wrongly condemned prisoners

Released after decades

Must hate time

For not opening up

And giving back

what everyone agrees

should not have been taken

 

Or a persistent old scientist rediscovering

 a long lost critical element

He once encountered as a young lab assistant

The one that could have made all the difference to his life experiment

 

Killjoy time

Has firm rules against a do-over.

And I suppose it likes having sayings written about itself…

If I knew now what I knew then…

Making up for lost time…

 

Since time won’t play along

I compensate (in my own case)

Transmitting and receiving

in concentrated but dangerous doses

Pressed into as short a span

As the moments  

Will allow

 

Take that time

 

Reviews

[W R Stowe]

So true time waits for nobody yet we all have to wait upon time. We can't go back nor can we go forward we simply wait on time to go by. I enjoyed reading this, especially about the prisoners that time can not be replaced. Thumbs up Rutherford!

[Delmar Cooper]

Anyone who thinks Time is something more than bone polish has a lot to live.

[Michael G. Smith]

Life is short...a lesson usually wasted on follies of the youth. You make terrific points. I hope some my learn from this wisdom.

[rutherford]

Thanks Michael. You get my meeting. Appreciate your kind words.

[Pryde Foltz]

A really finely conceived and constructed piece, whimsical with deep undercurrents. Many these days are coming to the conclusion that time is just an illusion created by the mind to give order to chaos … so that moments idea may beat the dickens out of time yet:)

[rutherford]

Thanks Pryde. I understand the illusion point-- I remember my then 9 year old daughter asking why we bother to measure time.

[Pryde Foltz]

Wise beyond her years.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

oh this is terrific,Rutherford...damn.

and so true, No Do Overs...

time moves on, with or without us.

we cannot make up for lost time...we can only do with it what we can...

[rutherford]

Thanks Jacob. I'm fascinated by time and its cousin -- missed opportunity. Its become a minor theme in other poems of mine--Future Madman, Know Time Like the Present and Time and Space at the 7-11