Time Is A Trickster

Time is atemporal; time will tell all.

Time will tell nothing, reck time as you will.

Time is a trickster; in time all will fall.

Carpe nihilum. Hour, strike; time, crawl.

How, dust, would warp time now? What lusts fulfill?

Time is atemporal; time will tell all.

Midnight is melting. Magus, kneel; time maul.

In ill time kill time. Knell, peal; corpse, lie still.

Time is a trickster; in time all will fall.

Time flies before you; quaff each moment’s gall.

Wisdom dies with you, waster; bitter pill.

Time is atemporal; time will tell all.

Sit on your ash-heap; the naked stars pall,

Fall, crawl to bare earth. Reel, spheres; ichor, spill.

Time is a trickster; in time all will fall.

Persist, illusion, death’s elusive call;

Resist, delusion, life with all death’s will.

Time is atemporal; time will tell all.

Time is a trickster; in time all will fall.

--Lori Tubbs 2004