Time Chaser

Standstill Waiting still Until the grand steal When time stood still In spite of legs Time cheats It flies in our good times And quantum leaps in our sleep It crawls in our watch And spites It stops in our anguish As though to prolong the pain And our lives flash at that moment As though to boast about our insignificance We run the race, but it wins every time It sets the records we chase We own expensive watches, But we can never own time It is as obtainable as it is stoppable Time moves like a chess piece In turns and incisively We mimic the arms of the wall clock Of seconds chasing the minutes The minutes catching up to the hours The hours exhausting their efforts into a day And when the battery dies, it doesn’t As though it has a spirit What is it? The clock tells time And it never lies It never fights, but rings It’s forever on schedule because it ticks Tasked to remind, it never forgets To move With the times The timers Read the Times it leaves behind To catch up, but we never do Even if we were to travel through time Time would be the medium and should we succeed It would be waiting for us on the other side To tell us what time it is