Give It Time

Give it time And it’ll all be reduced to silence The sea, the wind Give it time And it all will end For time is a taker And it never forgets Nothing passes through time unscathed Nothing Time is given anyway, without you having to ask It is an imposed tax A void larger than the human heart Constantly needing to be fed And it thrives on and consumes all in existence Give it time The music, the songs, the wars Give it time And you silence it The stealer of hopes Of anything significant, and everything insignificant For time is a cancer It heals nothing It is a false hope Time is selfish A foolish notion Because there’s never enough of it It reduces everything and everyone To zero It seeks to rule and it has no equal If we don’t stop it, it’ll take over the universe Its aim is nothing, and everything Its end complete domination through reduction So why give it time?