The value of time
Shirley Asuquo Peter 2004 (Calabar)
Tick, Tick, Tick
The years of life pass,
Slow but faster than,
the seasons of the earth,
Life a blink of the eye,
Age as drops of rain.
It was all but yesterday,
A little child in my mother's womb.
Where did time go,
Where was I all this while,
Floating through air,
While the years passed,
Existing but not living,
Where did time go.
Now I wake but time is gone,
Few years left but time to live.
About this poem
This poems is about our time here on earth. How little of it we have. How we humans spend time pursing things and forget to just enjoy it.
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Written on October 25, 2022
Submitted by shirleyapeter on October 30, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 99 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 2, 6, 2 |
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