Up To Us
Up To Us
Time counts the shadows
Drifting across clouds and stars
It measures each breath,
Tucks away each memory
Left behind in its travels
Time! As children we do not understand its significance nor do we pay it heed as it passes by for we are poised for the flight, wings at the ready, eyes ever skyward to begin the next journey. As young adults we begin to see its importance though we often ignore its truth. Believe the message cannot be meant for us. Believe that somehow we can still its passage if it must be stilled. But it is when we age, when the years and time have caught up to the other, that we truly understand. Time is fleeting and easily wasted. It is its own master and we cannot harness it nor can we make it wait while we are busy living life. Time gives us chances to use it wisely. It gives us chances to learn from it. It gives us chances to discover who we are and who we might want to become. It is up to us to give Time the chance to guide us. It is up to us to embrace it. It is up to us to be grateful for it. It is up to us to allow Time to be our enemy or our friend, or both. Time will not ask these things of us... it will just give us the chance to learn and to live.. it is up to us to do so with Time in mind.
Written for the Anything Goes challenge
Host: Gracie B.
By Myrna D.
© 2011 Myrna D.
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