Caveat: Poem #1367 “Time”

Frogs and horses, why are they?
Time is inescapable.
A burden. We cannot ever
escape. A child knows not time
but they make him learn.
They throw it on his back,
and he never notices
until one day,
then it is too late,
and they are happy.

– a free-form poem. This poem is a “guest post” from my own past. A distant past. I wrote this while in high school, in December, 1981. I remember writing it… vaguely.
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One comment

  1. David

    Interesting theme, but I feel the poem needs refinement to ring truer.
    Oddly, after many years of time seeming to zoom past, my lifestyle of recent years has brought time back to what feels like relaxed slow-motion.

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