Time is the garbage can
where our today
is dumped tomorrow
never to-be retrieved
for the wealth
of the world.
Time is the vacuum cleaner,
sucking up our
precious particles of
pain and pleasure
into its infinite void
ever so diligently.
Time is the toll collector,
stamping the seal of decay
on every cell, every neuron-
at the end of each day,
until we wither away
one cold morning.
Time is the tyrant
time is the tyrant
time is the tyrant.