Everything In Time

In the grand scheme of natural things that wane
 time seems ever-elusive and eternally unchained
 only mankind dares to give it a name;
it eeks through history and space
 marking everything in place
 never moving backward in its race;
only forward in slow and hectic rhapsodies,
 undoing progress with its tragedies
 as human ignorance embraces all its parodies;
qualifying distinctive moments of a human race
 trying foolishly to control the seconds easily erased
 millennia captured in human records of time and space;
time is only measurable and blind
 by the random genius of the human mind
 in its self-inspired sagacity destined to find
only God creates the persistence on this rock
 seconds, hours, years, generations on the clock
 ever on the run,  in a lifetime fared
time is nowhere yet everywhere
 neither here nor there,
 a mere second spent in evening prayer.







for Chantelle Cook's Time Poetry
5/27/21
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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