When Time Is Done With Us

"When Time is Done with Us"

By Ruhudeen Ali

12/12/11

The peculiar thing about the passage of time is that when we're young we focus on getting through the year so much so that our days pass by unnoticed. When we're older we focus on getting through the day so much so that the years pass by unnoticed. What you focus on stays in sight, what remains in the periphery slips by unannounced. What you wish to speed up passes ever slower and what you wish to slow down passes yet faster.

While burning aflame 

the firewood sees not the pyre wane 

But when the fire is gone 

And the smoke remains alone

What care do ashes have in which way they are blown?

When the fire is gone

The days and nights will moan

And everything and nothing goes wrong

Swaying to and fro, either way I mourn.

When time is done with us

We realize over what we fussed

But all that was, was enough

When looking back, why'd we ever scoff and lack trust

When all that ever was, was but a moment with love?