ABOUT TIME TOO, Irreverence Options

[Alan]

ABOUT TIME TOO

Create a universe with space,
and stars and suns, then planets.
Add some life and watch it grow;
almost nothing to almost something.

Implant a need to change, evolve,
until finally one arrives at sentience.
We now have human, which ‘thinks,
therefore it is’, but often chooses not to.

Our very human need brings order into,
and from surrounding chaos,
or so we imagine. Hence years, seconds
and so forth will codify time.

This time is very important;
brought in to rule over us all,
while some changes of time
are turned into veritable deities.

One grand god is to be worshipped
when he grants us his New Year,
for joy and wild celebration,
and sundry bacchanalian pursuits.

But, dammit, an invented construct
starts whether we're awake to scream
or not, so this one thinking human
prefers pursuit of non-bacchanalian sheep,

and sleep ....

Alan McAlpine Douglas

[Larry]

Hi Alan,

Now that I am retired, I also wonder why there is such a single minded fixation on what I consider to be an arbitrary estimate of a "point in time". Is there a galactic or universal clock out there somewhere by which one can synchronize their personal timepiece? Apparently, what we consider to be the correct time may be totally different from the actual. Personally, when the sun rises, it's day and when it sets, it's night (at least in this hemisphere).

Don't know if this was for crits or just a rant to vent about a sleepless night.

Also don't know but what this should have been posted in "Seren's Synapse" free verse forum. It is, after all, unrhymed and unmetered. Just curious!

Larry

[Alan]

Dear Larry,

Oops re the forum, at my 2 other sites there is only one "new poems" place. I'm asking Lori to move it.

I think time is personal, ie, I too have a truth - if I have not had lunch, it is still morning.

But the enforcement of time is the will of others imposed against one's own.

Feel free to crit, and thanks for the comments.

Love
Alan