Elucidating Questions

Time

And you said your name and I knew it

And I said I knew, but I don’t

I don’t know where the line falls

What’s the differentiation

But you are always

Running in a hurry while laughing

And I’ve tried to catch you

In fact, you give it to me

Your time

Is it an issue of place?

Can’t you sit still for a moment?

No, I suppose not

Wait up for me?

If we go by you, I’m so far behind

Not the interloper in my mind

The very fabric of moving forward

Those moments I hate you and you gaze at me with those voids of eyes

When you won’t answer my questions

Are you of the Universe?

A product of it?

Do you transcend the Universe and all its phenomena?

A promise of existence?

You were here before biology

A law

That to be

In any form

Means to be at your whims?

Or do you simply watch?

An existence like any other?

You seem cunning

Really, Time, is its own trickster god

It folds

People view it as a straight line

But I never see you running in the same place twice

Always a different direction

Always a different meaning

Places don’t stay the same where you’ve been

I said I know

The same, separate

You have hints of eachother

One promises the other

You flow

There’s a beginning of you

So there’s an end of everything else

But once you’re here, do you ever stop running?

Even once all the lights have gone out and there’s not a soul left here

Will you still be?

Are you a rule?

あるから時

いるから時

When I ask if everything can just stop for a moment

You throw your head back and laugh with an insanity that only you can create

Stop?

Yes, I know it’s a funny joke to you

Sitting in a place together

Where we can both be

One where I’m not a child trapped in madness

Were you ever a child?

Do you ever grow old?