Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Burning Time


Author's note:  This pieces was inspired by the passage in Fahrenheit 451 about burning time. "The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!"



The sun’s rays

Beating

Blazing

Burning
                            

The clock ticked
It chimed the hour

Each hour burned
Each hour saved

The hours up

Chimes
Whistles


Tick

Tock


Burning

Peeling hours away
Faster and faster

Tick

Tock

Old times
Old ways


Old hours
New days




The time is gone
It slipped away


The hours gone
None were saved


Our destiny waits
Until the new hour


Tick tock

Burning time

Tick tock

What comes next?

Tick tock


Our burned hours away


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