'Time and tide wait for none'
isn't it a saying of the wise?
Why then does time stop still when
I look into those sapphire eyes?
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'Time flies by like the shooting star',
pouts the little girl
at the town fair as she hops out
of the Carousel
Her mother's eyes keep oscillating
to the clock tower
She is keyed up why the hands are
moving much slower

Time is sipped in customized glasses
by every terrestrial soul
Its speedometer runs wayward
It's attuned to your smile and scowl
Time spent laughing with your loved ones,
is shrunken by the dial
Time's ruthless torture, knows a
man in the six by eight cell

Time is a tireless ruler,
Time, a masterly healer,
Time wipes the flowing tears;
Time, a dying man's prayer,
Time destroys, begets havoc,
tumbles the empires down
Time crumbles the sturdiest forts,
transforms a mere stone devine.

Time has seen - the dawn of faith,
earth shrink to the size of a grain
No one dares to capture its girth
None have witnessed its birth.
I watch it slip through my fingers,
my fist fails to arrest
Caught in Time's colossal web,
I'm just a miniscule spec.