Time
Is slipping through our fingers
Faster than sand through an hourglass

Time
There's never enough of it
Like wine in mass

Time
We need it more
Than a car needs gas

Time
Is more like a mirror
Than a looking glass

Time
It can caress you gently
Or kick you in the ass
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Time
Is soothingly gentle
Or unbearably crass

Time
Is full of verve
Or just plain sass

Time
Is as smooth as silver
Or as incandescent as brass

Time
Is as sour as a lemon
Or as sweet as sassafras

Time
Is as wet as the water
Or as wild as the grass
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Time
Is sometimes incongruous
Like a lad to a lass

Time
Is an unforgivable system
That I hope one day we'll pass


by savvy-09/08/2000...

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