Desert Dweller

-thoughts on life, death and gardening.

Timely Thought

No matter what the clock says, time is time.

It is impossible or at least improbable
to keep the past from passing away.
Time exists somewhere
between the order and its execution;
it is identical with
the impermanence of being.

Not world time, but infinite time
is formed by imagination,
existing on a new horizon
in an invisible labyrinth
gliding with new rhythms,
unbounded by space and number,
measured only by those observers
outside of what endures within.

No matter what the clock says, time is time.
Fulfillment springs to life
only in the present, not from hope
in a distant nonexistent future.
Joy exists in the here and now.

© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 270/365.

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