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Time is merciless,
Time is flear:
Lose a minute?
Lose a year!
Slow it crawls,
Slow and then –
Spinning spalls! –
There’s no more “when.”
All must suffer,
All must fall;
Saint or huffer,
Waits the pall!
Works and days,
Loves and loathes,
Each one frays
Like old clothes.
“Mercy, mercy!”
Screams the slave:
Strait, per se,
Time digs his grave.
Coldness, blackness,
Life now ceased,
Mind is trackless,
All is least.
One day space,
Time too, will die:
Physics’ base
Prised like ply.
Till that point
See it sheer –
Time is merciless,
Time is flear.
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© November 2021
