Sprinter

Somewhere Time is the only thing we have. Somewhere else, Time is the only we don’t have. Either way, we are always being centered in the flow of Time. ‘Time waits for no one’, legends say. ‘Because, Time has no destination’, I say. Don’t you agree?

Time just goes on and on and on. It started from nowhere and walks or jogs or even runs somewhere to…what?! – an unknown destiny. But, still, it happens…sorry…it just continues in its path. Yeah, its path – a single arrow-headed line (straight or twisted, but a single ended one all the same – from its very beginning!).

I can’t help but just get lost by Time – the endless flow. We’re being caged in the shell of Time right? The invisible, untouchable, unstoppable but the real – Time! Now is when, my caged imagination unleashes itself from nowhere. The magical words, “What if?!”

Just “what if, ‘Time’ became ‘him’ rather than ‘it’?” Will he be handsome? Oh, fine. We’re not talking about looks here. Then what? I just wanted to ask him this……like forever!

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You strike, you stop,

         Or you seem to stop!

I walk, I run,

         Or I seem to run!

You move, you circle,

         Atleast, I still can chase you down!

I block, I tackle,

         Oh atleast, I’m still in the run!

In the gap you seem to stop,

         I really seem to run a lap.

But you tick and tock in your trap,

         When I’m still in need of a nap!

You’re too fast for me to win,

         I’m too slow for you to even lose.

Yes! Fast and Slow are the words,

         My mind has always been given.

You creep, crawl, run and leap!

         But I’m the one who ‘Stop’.

Why do you wanna play this one way game?

         Why can’t you come back and is always me?

I know I can’t outrun you.

         But still I’m in the run.

And, what does that mean?

         Is it a relay, I play?

Oh yeah, you’re an Enigmatic Sprinter Mr. Time. You sprint your long way run. I do agree. And I also know that you’ll never answer my questions. But building castles in thin air and asking answerless questions never hurt anyone right?! Hmm…that’s a question again.

-Sp-