The Nature of Time

[Gryphon]

I had to take some liberties with my real thoughts on this topic to fit it into rhyme and nonsense verse, but I was just trying to have a bit of fun with it anyway. Let me know what you think or feel free to ignore the inconsistancy in what I've typed and add your own verses.

 

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Long have I thought on the nature of time,

You might even say it’s a hobby of mine.

So I sit at work on this slow seeming day,

And in so many words try to explain time away:

 

I have described time as a large and grey sea,

As this is the view that makes sense to me.

I see people splashing in the ocean of time,

Who’ll never have thoughts about it like mine.

 

Time might be an ocean instead of a sea,

It is larger and wilder and seems much more free.

Let us consider the sayings that line,

The paths throughout history all talking of time.

 

Time is said to flow or crawl,

Sometimes it races by us all.

We’re shackled to measure time all day,

And ask where it’s gone when it gets away.

 

If an ocean is indeed the nature of time,

Then all of these descriptions work out fine.

I shall try and describe now to you,

How an ocean of time make all so darn true.

 

A great ocean current can flow fast and true,

Zooming time right by people like me and you.

Oceans as a whole move barely at all,

For days when time just slows to a crawl.

 

When exploring the ocean one tends to get,

Totally and utterly, completely, wet.

Once we figure out how to explore time,

We’ll find we’re immersed in it, just like the brine.

 

And should you hit the beach at low tide one day,

You too will stand thinking ‘it all went away’.

Be ocean or time its so hard to tell,

Why both of them fit that statement so well.

 

I’ve more ideas on this topic for you,

The tricky part is that I just cant get through.

It’s too darn hard and though I’ve been doing fine,

There’s no way to put the rest into rhyme!