What is time?

Is is the quiet tick-tock

Of a wrist or pocket watch?

Quiet clicks in a quick precession.

What is time?

Is it the praised ring

Of school bells and church bells

Clanking clangs filling up the air.

What is time?

Is it the paper time-teller

Called a calendar

With marks about its 12 months of a year.?

What is time?

Is it the constant chasing

Of the moon and the sun

Making our skies bright and dark?

What is time?

Is it the quick counting

Of a small, happy child

playing hide and seek?

What is time?

Is it just a plethora of numbers

We use as an excuse

For our faults and failures?

What is time?

Is it a limited, sacred oath,

Of the length that which I stay with you?

Can time be forever?

Can time be forever?