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
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 639
Words 121
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2

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