Saving Time - March 27 2023

 

Saving Time

March 27 2023

It's 5 o’clock, somewhere.

Even a broken watch is right

twice a day.

And, for the parsimonious

a stitch in time saves   . . .    .

Clichés

have their kernel of truth;

like stereotypes

there's something there.

But time flies

is irrefutable.

Now, more behind me than ahead.

5 in the afternoon

and darkness descends,

midnight

on the doomsday clock

is drawing near,

no stopping it.

Or cocktails, if you wish.

Because it's always 5 pm somewhere,

so drown your sorrows

and toast the day.

About posterity, I'm not so sure;

the end

really is the end.

We may be promiscuous

with words like “always”

“ever after”

“for all eternity”;

but there's no forever,

and people forget

so soon.

Just as there's no saves 9.

All that rush and breathlessness

and shouldering aside,

when in the end

there's no getting back

the time you kept.