The wheel of time
Spinning without a purpose,
Drumming without a beat
Singing a song with the heart
It doesn’t have.
Is it worth it all?
Is it worth the fight?
Worth the combined value
Of every person’s
Sacrifice?
Regret.
Does it exist at all?
Is it only there… waiting, waiting…
Waiting to be realized
“I’m alive.”
To sing that song for people to hear
Or does it just turn?
No thought, no feeling, no space
Going through life from day to day
Not knowing that it’s
Living
Living, if it even is
How can it live without a heart?
But a heart it does not have
To sing a song that is not real
In the form of seconds
Tick, tick, tick…
That is the clock, not time
For time is silent, most silent of all
It just turns all hour, all day
For no reason, other than it "does"
Time has no purpose
Time has no beat
Time cannot sing a song
With a heart is does not have.
Author notes
I look back to read this and am kinda confused on now the picture inspired it. I think it was because I have a hard time seeing the person's face (don't know if that was intentional or if it's just me) and so, it's like you look at something that is trying to exist but it just...doesn't. It's just there. No purpose, no heart, no feeling, just "there". Like time. Time does not exist, yet it does because it's constantly moving. It's there, but without a heart. Without a soul. Longing to exist when it can't even know it doesn't exist.
A contest entry
- If I Never Knew You - For New to me poets by CarolDesjarlais.
900 points, ended October 16, 2007, 8 entries
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i like it kels it's pretty rythmic of and did you win my contest again ?? cuz i have no idea so let me know and we need to talk again but i like this poem and i have a new contest so i'll ttyl
sandy -
This is an interesting oem and your comments helped, but were not needed. I was able to capture the image your words evoked. I am a little concerned about sporadic use of punctuation... ty so much for entering..youa re able to begin to draw on those images and prhases in your head...
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The sporadic use of punctuation isn't sporatic...it's like that. Supposed to illustrate a pause. Used by author's and such all the time to build up suspense.
Aside from that, all of the punctuation I see is gramatically correct. Thanks for the comment though!
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time is certainly a puzzle
with no real purpose, as this poem says. Yet what would we do without it? We need something to measure what we go through, stepping through the present. Time a subject for endless thought
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