What is time?

by Demoness

Published August 23, 2012

In Pieces of Poetry

What is time but an awful lot of seconds?
A clock that runs with the sun-
But though time is endless, the sun is not.
In the space of time, all is diminished
For a million years is the worth of a second
-In comparison to the vault of eternity.
Your time is up even before it has begun,
So what is worth crossing a red light?
You will have saved but a second
-But risked losing them all.
In the end everything is worth nothing-
For time forgets it all.
The seconds we owe, are pointless-
And we treat them just as such-
We waste them. We waste time.
It doesn’t matter how many seconds you get,
In the space of time, they’re all worth the same-
But in the space of man-
What matters is what you use them for.
So what is time, if you have no one to spend it with?
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katngo73 wrote a review Review · Aug 24, 2012

Hiii again!! :))

I agree with the review below! You could've spaced it out more, because I got a tid bit confused... lining it up, and spacing it out, helps me understand more. It felt like a big.. jumbled mess. Do you know what I mean? I hope you do. ://

It was a beautiful poem, and I loved it! Your style and creativity in crafting poems such as these are spectacular! I hope you keep writing poems like this, you would become an awesome poet!
:)
Keep Writing!

~Kat

gabriellajames42 wrote a review Review · Aug 23, 2012

okay so this is so rich and great love where your going with the poem, and i doesnt go off topoic i maybe would have spaced it out a little more
life stanzas and such again excellent.
this is maybe how i would have written it:



What is time but an awful lot of seconds?
A clock that runs with the sun-
But though time is endless, the sun is not.
In the space of time, all is diminished
For a million years is the worth of a second

-In comparison to the vault of eternity.
Your time is up even before it has begun,
So what is worth crossing a red light?
You will have saved but a second

-But risked losing them all.
In the end everything is worth nothing-
For time forgets it all.
The seconds we owe, are pointless-
And we treat them just as such-

We waste them. We waste time.
It doesn’t matter how many seconds you get,
In the space of time, they’re all worth the same-
But in the space of man-

What matters is what you use them for.
So what is time, if you have no one to spend it with?

but thats just me, lioke i said great work(:



Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
— Poe