time's constraints

by heather - Taurus

it's the Time that drags you down;
heart-pounding, feet-kicking
dragging dusty trails into 
the Ground of Things Left Undone.

you scarcely know when to breathe,
much less love or hope
or dare 
to live within Time's Constraints -

(forever-waiting-for-the-Time-the-clock-is-ticking-and-the-beat-the-earth-is-straying-is-forever-kneeling-between-Circumstance-and-Happening)

and life blurs
into OneAnother
as you seek to know the truth of where 
Seconds fly to, where
the lives you cling to have gone to

and its the Time that drags you down,
fist-flying, nail-biting
bleeding
into the World of Things Left Unsaid.

Reason for writing:

    well i realized that life is short, and that we can't take it for granted...however, along with this realization i realized that i do take it for granted, and then i wonder, while getting caught up so much in the busyness and devastation, where time goes....a universal question in the shape of a poem...    

Birth sign: Taurus
Date created: 2000-03-15 17:15:17
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:41:54
Poem ID: 55078

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