Time
Time
Time is neither my friend nor my enemy
but my indifferent companion
Time watches me grow, struggle
but never lends a hand
It observes my mistakes, my failures,
my triumphs, and achievements
but never takes part.
Time follows me everywhere
but is nowhere to be found
It slows during hard times, speeds up
during the best of times, as if to remind
us of it's great power.
Time silently sits in the corner watching us
as we grow old, coming close to the end of our
"time" and then marches us out into oblivion.
It cannot be bargained with, fought with or denied,
it just is.
Time is neither my friend nor my enemy
but my indifferent companion
Timothy Rogers
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AB xx xxx xx xxc xcb xx AB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 639 |
Words | 121 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2 |
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