PIECES OF TIME

 

      How many watches and clocks will we own

      over the breadth of our lifetimes?

      can you remember each one?

      count them on your fingers

      for their manufacturer and model?

      the experiences, good or bad

      they shared with us?

 

      And how presumptuous

      in our immortal conditioning

      to assume we possess any timepiece at all

      for can any of us truly own time?

 

      Though every clock and watch

      In their extended meaning

      the ultimate companion

      unique to us

      in our personalities and habits

      the grandest symbiotic relationship

      both master and servant

      giver and taker of gifts

      for the brief hours we strut and rage

      upon this Earthly stage

     

      In dark trials and tribulations

      any timepiece appearing to move

      at an ungodly slow pace

      yet in hours of happiness/revel

      hands or digits

      turning at dizzying speed

      while we steadily grow older

      the sun seems to move

      faster and faster around us

      toward an all too soon demise

 

      And while in this

      the only certainty appears to be

      that the last one to hug our wrist

      talk and listen to us

      from wall, stove, or electronic device

      will in the end outlive its owner

 

      Here ticks the true magic of it all

      if we believe in the extended meaning

      for beyond this Earthly stage

      all those pieces of time will come together

      as neither servant or master

      but the eternal companion

      we had always wished them to be

 

 

               

            © 2004 Chris Sorrenti