Tag: time

Time Goes Every Year

Time goes every year
And never comes back
Yet always comes around
To the same time

And here am I
Year over year
Setting down my characters
Setting down my letters

Time
And chance
Some physics
And chemistry

All the brushes
Nature requires
To paint with stardust
On the canvas of existence

When the last light fails
In our cities
When the last of us breathe
Our last breath
The sky will still burn with fire
Every morning

There will be no one to mourn
Our absence
But the emptiness of time

Time walked here
Aeons ago
Leaving its footprints
On the landscape

Not to become
Icons of Hollywood
But to impress upon the inhabitants
Where the true source
Can be found

I cross the valley floor
Under the gaze of giants
The land’s sentinels for time
Long forgotten

Old Man Rock
He sits there watching
Spinifex and gum trees
Emu and the wallabies

Old Man Rock
He’s steady-on
I sit upon him
Wondering

At all that is
And ever was
And what it means
And what becomes

Judge not this race by empty remains
Do you judge God by his creatures when they are dead?

~ Genesis, Watcher of the Skies

We create spaces
Walk away from them
Return, re-visit, renovate

We take what was
And make of it
Something else
Whether for utility
Or a statement

It’s only time, you know
That perfect line in nature
Whatever the process which created it
Whether physics, chemistry or biology

The line is just a moment in time
Created over time
And this moment
Is simply a snapshot

It was a dawn
Eerie and alien
That fell like the dusk
Of a never-ending night

I plunked myself down
On the well-travelled way
Which served me so well
For many a day

I didn’t notice
Until almost too late
That the times were a-changing
At a very fast rate