time
Chasing Time
Feb 09 2011 Filed in: Jims Poems
Chasing Time
It was a dark
And moonless night
I was chasing time
Through the forest
And he was very fast,
But even time
Must catch its breath.
So at last
I caught up to him.
“What’s the hurry?” I said,
“And how come you only
Run in one direction?”
Then time
Stood very still,
And I thought I glimpsed
Parallel times
Racing against
The time before my eyes,
And I knew that either fast or slow
There was another time
That I would never
See or know.
It was a dark
And moonless night
I was chasing time
Through the forest
And he was very fast,
But even time
Must catch its breath.
So at last
I caught up to him.
“What’s the hurry?” I said,
“And how come you only
Run in one direction?”
Then time
Stood very still,
And I thought I glimpsed
Parallel times
Racing against
The time before my eyes,
And I knew that either fast or slow
There was another time
That I would never
See or know.