Time
TIME
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Time lives and plays.
It hides and creeps.
Now you see it,
Now you don’t.
.
Time hides in joy
And follows you around.
When you want to forget it,
You can’t put it down.
.
Time is empty and quiet
And full of space.
Time is larger than life
And smaller than a smile.
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Time is old and new.
It grows and shrinks.
Time carries us forward
And holds us back.
.
We live in Time
And exist on its terms.
Fight with it,
Race it,
And lose.
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—2003