Time by Salvador Dali
"Nothing will change for the better until we do that." Why do we need time to think before we act? Are we mistaking speed for productivity? Let's "take back the time" to think. It is a unique equipment of man.
BEING ON TIME
When Time equals Being,
That would be the End.
Nothing would get past
The edges of ephemera.
What would the end be,
When Being equals Time?
There will not be a bang
Anywhere, nor a whimper.
There can only be trumpets
Of the winged proclaiming
An arrival in a regained
Haven where Death is dead;
At which time, no time
Marks being on time. Ever.
All will be late for the birth
Of God on Judgment Day.
---ALBERT B. CASUGA
That would be the End.
Nothing would get past
The edges of ephemera.
What would the end be,
When Being equals Time?
There will not be a bang
Anywhere, nor a whimper.
There can only be trumpets
Of the winged proclaiming
An arrival in a regained
Haven where Death is dead;
At which time, no time
Marks being on time. Ever.
All will be late for the birth
Of God on Judgment Day.
---ALBERT B. CASUGA
A response to one of the Big Questions posed by Simon Blackburn in his The Big Questions: Philosophy essay on Time and Being, "Does Time Go By? The Strange River of Time." (pp.115-123), Quercus Publishing Plc, 2009, London UK. This is an attempt at using poetry to pin down knowledge and truth about the big questions of existence.
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