Time is a wind

It comes and goes

It shuts you out

Then it opens other doors

 

The breath you take

Is a gift of time

The words you speak

Are its rhythm and rhyme

 

A thief, a fugitive-

It’s always on the run

Doing its job between every

Rising and setting sun

 

Don’t be a fool

Don’t make permanent any belief

The life you claim to own

Is a gift from a thief

 

It provides you

And then it takes away

Nothing that you’ve received

Will forever stay

 

Harbour not

Any anger or regret

Pay your dues in time

Don’t gather any debt

 

For if you’re left behind

Because you stayed too long

It will return for you

To take you where you belong

 

Time will take away

What time brought in

Time cannot stay

Time is a wind.