Our measure of Time

Is arbitrary, artificial.

We measure the rate of vibration

Of a molecule and divides

That natural cycle into equal parts.

Arbitrary and artificial because time

Is a mere progression of moments

And a moment only flows, like water

It can’t be grasped, divided or held.

It doesn’t, and can’t, stop.

Because a moment is already the Past.

This non-moment is the only moment

This non-time, the only time we have

Can’t exist if now is defined by then, and when

Because what we call “then” didn’t exist, then.

And won’t, when.

Time is a force, one side of the coin

And it is a measure, of distance

And distance requires Space,

The other side of the coin.

Space is movement, motion

And motion, with time, is Creation.

Time, with Space, expands the universe

Into greater being.

But the sides must be balanced.

When Space is all, there is no Time

Creation is fetal,

Both unborn and buried.

When Time is all, there is no Motion

No Space. When Motion ceases

Creation is unborn.

Neither can exist alone.

Time and Space must work as one.

Without space, there is no time

And without time, no space.

With either, there is the other.

And with either, there is no other

Only both, as One.

If the Present is a progression of Moments.

And if a Moment is already the Past

Then the Present can’t exist.

Yet, when Time is complete

Past, present and future are

Fixed in the spheres

Motionless and unchanging.

Present.

This non-thing, non-moment

All that we have, can’t exist

Yet, it does.

I wander through time

And think that it wanders through me.

I lie in bed at night and wonder

With dread and with hope.

I try to remember physics, and why

This moment can’t be real

And I’m not even sure that it matters.

Because in Time we move, we Dance!

From the point of Stillness

To the point of Timelessness, we move

Ever outward, bound nowhere and everywhere.

And it is Creation!

By Blaine Coleman

From: United States

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