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Live Pause - Surreal Scifi

I am one of those in a world that stopped
whether it was for seconds, fractions or millennia
but the engine of time broke down mid action
mid conversation, mid thought
and for a beautiful period we were all framed 
in a snapshot that may have lasted eons 
and some called it enlightenment
and when the buffering released us
all was as it was
and some claimed epiphanies
the only giveaway, a distant house alarm

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Sotto Poet

Date: 11/23/2023 1:42:00 PM

Great Thought and perfectly crafted, Clive. In deed the combination time and space is the universal forms of matter's existence. Time may be an abstract way for humans to understand change. Plato thought that time was celestial motion

Clive Culverhouse
Date: 11/23/2023 2:49:00 PM

There's the joke that time only exists to stop everything from happening all at once. Thanks so much for your deep comment and for reading Sotto