Time and Tide

Time goes in tumbling torrents.
Like water in a creek bed,
you're never sure how much has flowed by.
One moment you're holding a child's hand,
before you know it he's a grown man.
Time is fluid and slips away without knowledge.
The older you get the faster it flows.
Until life seems like one big race to old age.

? 2001
Lisa Gibson
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My father used to tell me that the older you get the faster time goes.
I used to think (back when I thought I knew it all) 'yeah right, time
is time and it all flows the same'. Not true. Now I'm older (enough to
know that I don't know it all) and he's right. It slips away before you
even knew it was there.