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Time Traveller

Welcoming geniuses and madmen to the crazy glass towers
Watching titans through a misted lens
Seeing only tomorrow on yesterday's today
Turning people into numbers

Fighting through the past
Running blindly through the present
Fixated, on a desolate destiny



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Although I haven't posted in a while, I felt compelled to pen this 10-minute piece to express myself and get some crazy thoughts out of my mind.

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Caren Krutsinger Date: 9/6/2019 4:47:00 AM I feel like I have landed into the land of a genius, poetic mad-man! Login to Reply Michael Whatley Date: 9/7/2019 6:05:00 PM Awh, Caren, thank you so much for your kind words!

Besma Riabi Dziri Date: 9/5/2019 5:14:00 PM Only Artists are beautifully empowered to travel and feel time as their soaring imagination would allow them! You made your flight possible, Michael, time traveler! So wonderful and profound! Greatly enjoyed and appreciated.. Regards and blessings. Login to Reply Michael Whatley Date: 9/7/2019 6:10:00 PM Soaring is an excellent word to describe the unbounded magical energy that is imagination. Much appreciated, Besma, thank you for visiting and getting me thinking!

Connie Marcum Wong Date: 8/28/2019 4:50:00 AM I feel some of our great inventions have come from visitors from our future. I like this poem very much. : ) Login to Reply Michael Whatley Date: 8/28/2019 5:25:00 AM Thanks Connie! It's all in our perception when it comes to the near unfathomable passage of time.

Laura Breidenthal Date: 8/19/2016 8:49:00 PM Awesome job, Michael. Thank you also for the sweet comment on my poem the other day. Means a lot. That last line is immensely stark, but I love the poem, particularly the line, "Watching titans through a misted lens" Excellent work..keep it up. Always, Laura Login to Reply Michael Whatley Date: 8/20/2016 11:18:00 AM My pleasure Laura, and thank you very much for stopping by! Michael Whatley Date: 8/20/2016 11:06:00 AM My pleasure Laura, and thank you very much for stopping by!

The Grahamburglar Date: 8/19/2016 8:36:00 PM My thoughts wander into the strangeness of time sometimes as well. I think there's an interesting contrast between the immutable nature of the past and the infinite possibilities of the future, and in every moment, we are sandwiched right between the two. It's a strange thing, time. Thanks for posting your thoughts for the rest of us to muse over. For that, I'm giving it a 7. -G Login to Reply Michael Whatley Date: 8/20/2016 11:02:00 AM Right on the money, Grahamburglar - time is indeed a strange thing. Many thanks for stopping by!