Thoughts from a grown child!

It has no beginning, but was there from the start.

The only thing that can endure it is the love in one's heart.

It is set by the hands that wind on the clock,

It cannot be caught or chained or locked.

It out lasts the years and tells us the hour,

It is seen in the sky by the earth's highest power.

It breaks down the mountains and brittles one's bones.

It rots out the beams that hold up one's homes.

It moves ever onward, never stopping to look back.

Like a train on its track, it is set in its path.

It hails every season and knows each by name.

Yet the seasons and it are one and the same

It outlasts the nations, no matter big or small.

No tree can outlive it, none short, none tall.

The hairs once dark, it turns to bright white,

It is there in the morning, at noon and at night.

It muddles the mind that once knew all there was

It outlasts men who fight for a just cause

It moves ever faster, just out of reach

It out lives the monsters that live in the deep.

It answers to no one, yet is set by all.

It was from the seed, to when the last petal falls.

It has seen the greatest things mankind ever made,

But it knows each man's hour and takes each to his grave.

TIME

DJPL