Passing

Don't waste a second!

Time has no conscience,

it sheds not a tear for us

as we slip away.

 

15/05/19

Author's Note

Reviews

[Siddhartha Chatterjee]

I love it how you presented Time as constant and us slipping away. Very interesting and quite a change, I must say. Thank you.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I think as we grow older and our children fly the nest time becomes constant and we move further out into the universe. Many thanks once more.

[h d e rushin]

In poetry time (between shaman and rainfall) i'de like to think that each word written makes a mark in a stone somewhere. I left a book of poems on the bench on the river walk in Detroit and when I went back to get it, it was gone. Then I thought of how powerful and delicate someone's life had become; how some heart might be moved or how some hardened righteousness, resolved. If time wasn't people then why keep track of it in the first place. May as well just sit and pretend mercy or meaningfulness. And if in the end no one still cares, then so be it.....great poem....dana

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thanks Dana. I guess we should get used to death as normal and OK and then perhaps we would not waste so much of it?

[Robert Trakofler]

Hell yes I am constantly running to catch up with it and when I do she never listens anywho very fickle I think minutes are related to muses:(

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I think the more one muses on muses the less minutes one has. Many thanks BB.

[Kelly Scheppers]

...and yet we struggle to hold onto it. We need it in our lives - but there will never be enough. Wishing you a good day, John!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I have always thought the secret to a happy life is to accept it is finite and unpredictable and that death comes to us all. So make every moment count. Many thanks Kelly.

[Kelly Scheppers]

Life will be the death of us, someday. I've decided I will not go quietly into the night!

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

That's true.
Time isn't nice,
It counts away quickly,
Leaving everything behind,
Having regards for nobody.
You live or you die,
That's none of its business,
So greedy about it own count,
Only cares about its own existence.

-: Humble Kay.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed so Kay, indeed so. Thanks for stopping by.

[Richard🖌]

Hi, John!
TIME, the great illusion.
If we say, "past" it no longer exists, "presence" disappears as it is spoken, and "future" does not yet exist.
Past, present, future, all but figments of imagination; illusion derived by a manmade system created to measure one's existence and movements, but it's not as though we would cease to exist without its notion.
As is the invention of language, we can no longer even think without its use, and without the idea of "time" we would not function; or, so it seems.
Perfect picture choice and music, BTW.

I've read senryus and Senryus, John, but this is a "great" SENRYU!
Now, it will haunt me all day … thank you for the stir, My Friend! ⁓ Richard 🍃

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Hello Richard, I fear you are quite too generous and I am humbled in any case to have one of the Cafe's masters give me such nice feedback. Glad you liked the music and picture too. Many thanks.

[Leslie Philibert]

a timely ( in every sense) reminder of mortality and our enemy, the clock !

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed so Leslie. Hope everything is Ok? Many thanks for reading and commenting.

[kentuck14]

Ah . . . the mystery of time! though not a person, or even a living thing, it has such a hold on us. How can such an esoteric reality have such power? Often it resembles the wind . . . felt but never seen as itself. Time . . . the great humbler of man.
T

[John Alexander McFadyen]

The secret is that time does not even exist. It is a man made concept. Indeed a humbler though. Thanks Tom.

[Chris Shaw]

Strong senryu here. Time has no emotion it just passes with ease Too much ease. We should be mindful not to waste the time we have. Once gone it can't be retrieved. Like water under the bridge. This little write creates much thought. I enjoyed that.

Chris

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Chris. I guess many of us simply stare out of that window instead of getting out into the world and making use of our lives.

[Chris Shaw]

Too much procrastination and not enough action :)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Action! That is what I have been missing. Right off to find the day!

[Chris Shaw]

Good morning John. Read this again this morning and we are certainly going to make the most of today. Boating on the Thames. Have a good one.

Chris

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Morning Chris, thanks for revisiting. Sounds idyllic boating on the Thames. Enjoy! I have a two hour gym stint and shopping planned lol!

[Chris Shaw]

You might enjoy the pain of the gym. I doubt that you'll enjoy the shopping!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Believe me shopping would be a lot less taxing and as I do it after the gym it seems a 'pleasure'.

[Chris Shaw]

Have fun :)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

More of a relief after 65 minutes on the tread mill. ten on the cross trainer, ten on the bike and weights in between lol!

[Shazbatt969]

The time/space
continuum
does not compute the
nano seconds of us

always like your sudden poetic shifts, Jack of all ....., lol

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed it does not compute. Danger Will Robinson, danger! Oh I simply like variety. You know....the spice of life!