Time Never Sits For No One

Time stops for no one Poetry Contest Sara Jama From the first heartbeat to the very last From the first cry to the last gasp Life and time rise and then fall The hands on the external clock never pausing As the legs of the day keep moving From dashing sunrises to dashing sunsets To the everlasting stars and moons in the sky To the gravitation pull of the tides Life keeps marching on Orchestrated like and infinite To the rhythm of the seasons To the spins of the earth Time never sits Time never sits for anyone Even when we're gone As the sands of time Funnel through our hourglass Methodically, esoteric, and destined Each pebble is a milestone in our lives Each pebble adds purpose to our internal clocks These heaps of pebbles lead us up the hill and down From the first baby steps, childhood to adulthood And to the lifetime of discoveries From baby blues to aging greys These stepping stones mark time And our existence though short-lived Where our internal clocks naturally yield in the end As light begets darkness And only then does the time sit inside our window Outside nature continues its course