“A time to love and a time for peace, a time for war and a time for peace”…

Time…what a weird concept it is. Some claim it’s merely a social construct. That is doesn’t actually exist. Just a social construct…

But how do you explain what takes place as it passes? Things that change, the connections that are made and broken? If it truly didn’t exist then why does the mind treat it so?

It’s all in your head…is it?

How does it seem ta move so fast and yet seem so slow? Yet it does. In a blink days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, and months into years…yet things feel like it was just yesterday. 

You can still see things as if is were present. Hear the sounds inside your head. Still feel the excitement and emotions of a moment…still present, as if happening right now. 

Can’t dismiss it, can’t change it. It’s just…there. 

Moments so vivid in my mind yet don’t exist anymore…living in the past? Maybe. Is that possible? Can that be done?

Sign me up. Put me there…once again. One more time. Sink me deep into the abyss of what once was, is not now, and may never be…bury me in it.

What’s so appealing to what has yet to come; when the best of it once was?

Bid me no quarter, tie me up, surround me once again in that feeling that once was. I’ll voluntarily submit.

Put me there…

Time…I loathe the forming of the word in my mouth…the sound it creates as it leaves my lips.

Of all things in life to damn…I damn you. 

What fool created you as a measure? Who were they to put a limit on what was good? Rob people of their right to just remain. What a poor soul they must be.

Tick tick tick…the clock goes. Watchin’ it doesn’t speed it up or slow it down. Wicked evil demon that it is.

Peace be still…all we truly have is time.

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