The Removalist

Time an invisible force: 

A measurement, a unit

Of a solar day.

Grinding stone to dust.

In time, dust is gone.

We invented time 

To find time, against us.

Time is patient. Time removes.

Want something gone. Call time.

But time, works for no-more.

Your slate will be wiped clean.

All your mistakes, doubts,

Loved ones, friends, enemies

Your existence, all traces

Are removed in time, by time.

Time works against us all

Yet, we dance in step with time.

The Earth, the Sun will be erased 

Wiped clean, no more, by time.

Will time in itself,

Disappear with time?

Only time will tell.

Reviews

[Willard Wells]

A very timely piece of writing. Funny and spot on. Make you realize "Only time will tell". Great work.

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Willard for dropping by

[sereenaoutloud]

Wow, this is very thought provoking ! Time goes by far to quickly,,i wish there was a way to slow it down!! :)

[andrew mitchell]

Are you feeling ok today your face looks rather pastel!!!:)

[sereenaoutloud]

i decided i needed a wee bit more color :)

[....................]

Quite the philosophical write, Andrew... we all think about time and its passing, but many of us take it for granted... it always amazes me how you can take such serious topics and in your usual entertaining fashion, make them funny yet thought-provoking... that is the sign of a good writer as far as I'm concerned... well-done, my friend!

[andrew mitchell]

FT that's a huge rap and I thank you very much for your words!:)

[Beccy]

Time, so important to us, yet so elusive in the physical sense.

If all the clocks stopped, then started again, what would be the difference, aside of course for the amount of 'time' we might measure as lost.

Must dash, I need to be on time for a dental appointment. :)

Beccy.

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Beccy

[andrew mitchell]

Nothing outlasts time,everything ages, like a fire if it burns out that's it, dead, you can turn the clocks back its still dead in the now for time has passed. Its all so interesting to dissect time. Thanks again

[John Alexander McFadyen]

So are you telling me I won't be having my time again? lol
Interesting thought provoking and scary. Thanks a lot Andrew!
Now whatever you do don't waste your time today.

[andrew mitchell]

lol..............................

[ANTO]

Quite thought-provoking Andrew. Time helped mankind flourish but like the evil kid who placed bugs into the spiders web only to see them devoured, it seems to mock us.
Time will be around as long as man-kind requires it, in my opinion.
This is my favourite of yours 'of all time' (lol).
Thanks for sharing matey.
:D

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Anto for your kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed! To think the sun will burn out one day in time!!

[ANTO]

m fasciated by the demise of the Sun my friend. It will blow up like a big gas balloon - eating Earth and the inner planets and will shine like never before - a red giant - did you know that in the stars constellation ORION there is a red giant called Betelguese - the brightest sun in our night sky - seeee.. what you've gone and done Andrew ... I went all Carl Sagan there ...*shakes head * - "get out Carl !!"
xD

[ANTO]

*Im fascinated ...lol

[andrew mitchell]

Fascinating and its hard to comprehend the enormity of it all, like a black-hole that eats galaxies and the fact that the universe is getting thinner reaching out into nothingness , Good ole Carl.

[ANTO]

It can surely twist your mind if you dwell on it. I loved the saying that there are as many stars (the size of our size - plus many many bigger) as there are grains of sand on the beach and each one may (or not) have a system of planets like ours does. It makes you realise the insignificance of you and I in the grand scheme of things, eh?