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Time Blindness (SOLS)

3/25/2011

 

Time Blindness

I am a late person. 
Timeliness is elusive.

I lose time.
In a mere blink,
One last look,
Five minutes are gone.

I need deadlines
But I can’t meet them.
I am pushed clockwise
but not fast enough.

I magically believe
I can squeeze
a forty-five-minute time span
into a quarter hour.

The future is ethereal.
There are no plans
for two days from now,
a week ahead, a month coming up.
Future time is too far away.

Prompt people, Time people
don’t understand.
They see tardy time
as a weakness, a 
lack of being thoughtful.

They are people who hold and secure time.
TIme is a gift they easily tame.
I chase, lose and forget time.
ruth
3/25/2011 12:43:42 pm

This is wonderful! I love your stance on time and the imagery is great. My favorite line is "I am pushed clockwise, but not fast enough".
Love it!

Linda Baie link
3/25/2011 01:18:16 pm

I love the, I assume, autobiographical outcry. You have portrayed your ideas so well in the different parts, but yet managed to hold your own. It almost seems as if the 'on time' people are the ones in the wrong. Nice portrayal!

Terje
3/29/2011 04:14:03 am

I read it, and then again. Your poem about your (or fictional author's) relationship with time has wonderful imagery. "I loose time in a mere blink" and "time is a gift they can easily tame" are my favorites. I find that the people who think they can tame time are actually tamed by the time.


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