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I am Time, I do not know Where I’ve come from Nor do I know whither I am going I only know that I started in the past And am going to the future I can’t stop myself even If poets mistakenly say I stand still sometimes If I stand still, I’ll cause chaos If I move back I’ll kill people Or bring the dead back to life And undo things both good and bad My only option is to move forward Like an arrow from a bow, A bullet from a barrel or Like the spoken word that Cannot be taken back. People talk of Time travel I grin and keep my peace When I cannot travel back How can they? Advocateurs say I heal Yes, I heal, but I also kill As I pass, I transform infants into young And young into old, and old into the dead That’s the only way I know The old must yield place to the new That is the law of life I have no memory of my own Only people have a memory of me People ask me what is my age Physicists say I was born 14 billion years ago Though I can't recall my birth I am too old by earthly standards But do I have a death? I do not know If I’ve lived a long, long life There must be something in me That defies death Because the universe is there I am there If the universe ceases to exist, I will too I have no purpose of my own My purpose is linked to people’s purpose In life; You wonder where I live I exist in your active mind If you die, I exit I have no use for the dead The dead have no use of me The living waste me like Water running down the drain I am an entity that defies Definition I am a concept imagined By people who are industrious The lazy and the procrastinators Do not understand my value I am different things to different people I am Time.
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