*Misc : What Is Time?
Time is meaningless.
It takes up infinite measures of our lives.
It can go too slow or too fast.
It makes days,
hours,
minutes,
seconds.
It drags on and speeds up at all the wrong moments.
Time means everything.
Without it, life would mean nothing.
Without it the world would blend into
nothingness.
Without it days,
hours,
minutes,
seconds, mean nothing.
Without it life stretches out infinitely,
with no measure.
Without time,
there is no tomorrow,
there is no future,
there is nothing.
With time,
there is healing,
bruising,
and death.
How can we appreciate some force that kills?
How can we neglect the basis of life?
What does time mean?
Why is something unknown,
so important to existence?
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| Retribution101 | Posted: 2010/2/10 7:16 Updated: 2010/2/10 7:16 |
Lead Moderator   Joined: 2005/9/16 From: Behind You! Posts: 2730 |
 Re: What Is Time?I like the concept of this. I think you are growing not only as a young woman, but as a writer as well. You used contradiction perfectly to highlight your point. Time is a human concept indeed, but it is also a scientific fact that the sun rises and sets!
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| Sapphire__Eyes | Posted: 2010/2/9 10:43 Updated: 2010/2/9 10:43 |
Poetry is my existance   Joined: 2006/4/4 From: Just trying to get by, where ever that may be. Posts: 2195 |
Re: What Is Time? I love this. How it contrast and how you go back and forth with the italics. It questions and answers and its brilliant. :) Great pen
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| Kara Nicolee | Posted: 2010/2/9 10:24 Updated: 2010/2/9 10:24 |
Me!? Quiet!? HA!   Joined: 2005/1/1 From: nowhere :] Posts: 59 |
Re: What Is Time? Yes those are the responses I was looking for with this poem. Time and things like that can be taken in so many different ways. Not one thing any of us knows is 'right' but it is what we know, and we feel comfort in that. But thinking outside of what we know, some things have no use or meaning. Thank you for the comments.
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| SirichJ | Posted: 2010/2/9 6:39 Updated: 2010/2/9 6:39 |
Poetry is my existance  Joined: 2004/8/27 From: England, UK Posts: 2777 |
Re: What Is Time? The concept of time was originally defined in multiple systems and the one we currently use is simply an adaption of the initial definitions. These definitions mostly serve a purpose to predict the seasonal patterns and are entirely based on the Earth. For the time being, this is a reasonable way to define a natural occurrence, but moving into the future the concept of time will most likely be redefined to a base-10 system for ease of calculation. Much like distance measurement, we can define any value into a unit system in an attempt to organize and understand a natural dimension, but these units and systems only hold meaning due to a universal standardization. Therefore, time is a system of measurement that is used to describe the physical properties of the fourth dimension in much the same manner as distance describes the first three dimensions. The units are human definitions that society as a whole has seemingly accepted based on a system of order imposed by the natural process of our Earth's rotation and revolution.
Basically, we need something as a ruler that we can measure our lives against, but 'time' as an actual 'thing' does not and never has existed. |
| CloudyWolf | Posted: 2010/2/9 0:10 Updated: 2010/2/9 0:10 |
Why go anywhere else?   Joined: 2008/1/9 From: Posts: 188 |
Re: What Is Time? You're missing something important, humans are the only being that measures time. So does it really exist to anything other than us? A deer doesn't realize it's going to die, it just *does* unknowing of time, or knowledge of its forthcoming demise as we are.
Time is just a means of measuring experience, It's not important at all. |