About Time
July 11 2021
In time
anything can happen.
Problem solved
finding love
another asteroid.
Which is why I always get there
in time.
Plenty of it.
I'm the “on-time” guy.
Only to find
I have to take a time-out,
counting seconds
taking deep breaths
and pacing incessantly,
filling time
until the laggards arrive.
Impatient, as usual;
but at times
aren't we all?
But
now, with time
I've mellowed,
learned to wait
be more laissez faire.
Because most of the time, give or take
around time
is good enough.
After all, you don't get it back in the end —
the time you save
earns no interest
and isn't held in trust somewhere.
Give it some time
and things might sort themselves.
But up against time
you always lose
the clock runs out.
Remembering
that in the fullness of time
when the universe ends
nothing matters anyway.
As the celebrated economist John Maynard Keynes famously wrote: “ ...in the long run, we are all dead.” The art of prediction may be a dubious one, but if you predict far enough ahead one outcome is certain!
But this is more of a word play poem than a philosophical one. Yes, the ending appeals to my innate nihilism. But really, it was all just some fun with prepositions and clichés!
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