Time
You are my best friend and my best enemy
I try to catch you without ever really trying
You scare me as much as you fascinate me
I hate to love you so much
I hear the beat of the drum
I hear you tell me we can not go back
I hear you tell me that everything is in my hands and that you are my guide
I understood that you were the answer to many things
You are neither good nor bad
You belong to nothing and yet you are everything
Our everything
You heal but you hurt
You give life as you take it back
I would like to own you and keep you for me
I would like you to give me everything you can so that I can enjoy every moment
You are the common point of every living being, you are the link that binds us
I sometimes think back to the people you took from me, and the ones you did not
want to give me
want to give me
I've never known anything as controversial as you
We never see you and yet you are still there somewhere.
You are not constant and yet so faithful
You are unpredictable
I would have liked to accept you instead of fighting you
Thanks to you I discover, I grow, I evolve but I also get older
I loved wasting time and losing you
The world is too big, too big I get lost and you who starts the stopwatch
It's a race against the hourglass to not miss anything
To live everything
You constantly remind me that everything is ephemeral
And that this fragility is the most precious thing we have
There are no rules or bad steps
There are only paths that intersect at a given moment
A moment that you have decided.
All these people who meet
All these destinies that bind for a moment according to your decision
We have the impression that everything lasts
But everything is accelerating
And we are already at the end
You put on bandages explaining that scars are necessary
That every story is important and
That regret is not an option
In my story, you are the one who decides
So where are you going to take me now?
Do I have to run or is it time to slow down?
Do we have time?
In recent years you have worn me
You have opened a new universe
You never lie, but sometimes you play games
I like to know that you are not reliable
And that maybe you will take away everything you gave me because everything becomes
precious thanks to you
precious thanks to you
The past, the present, the future all mix.
As a meeting between the moon and the sun,
A hot night and a cold day
In the stars
So bring me to the unknown
Like me hate me
But let me live
Make it timeless and intoxicate me with your eternity
Before everything stops

I really enjoyed your personification of time in this poem, as it adds a very interesting spin onto the message by having yourself write it as if it were a personal letter. I think my favorite line from the piece is "You constantly remind me that everything is ephemeral / And that this fragility is the most precious thing we have". Because not only is it a sentiment that I agree with, but I'm particularly fond of the wording. Overall this was a lovely poem to read!
ReplyDeleteI really love the almost-personification you gave the aspect of time. It presents it as almost the protagonist of the poem and not the narrator, giving it a unique feel and tone as we see "time" develop throughout the various stanzas. My favorite line would have to be "you heal but you hurt." I feel that it encapsulates the whole message of the poem and tells the reader about the two-sidedness of something as mundane as time. Nicely done.
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