The fight for time

Cherry

By Parson Thru

Wed, 31 Oct 2018
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I miss my home
My family and friends
The Air
The open fields and pasture
Moor and meadow
Jet-trailed cobalt skies
My running-routes of old
The idle of a motorcycle engine
Yet
I feel compelled to live unencumbered
Somewhere where the fight goes on
Where souls can thrive
Where spending time isn’t yet a crime
Where underneath this soil
Mounds of bones remind us what’s at stake
Perhaps a memory lingers also in my bones
The legacy of generations
Two or three, no more
Inherited in genes or through tradition
Or in whispers -
The assembled spirits of my kin
This
For all the things I miss
Something finds me in these reconciling streets
Whose sense that modest living isn’t failure
Posts reminders
That the fight for time goes on

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Comments

Submitted by Nolan on

Thank God I'm a country boy!

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Or thank whoever might have been so generous as to bring that situation into being. :)

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Submitted by Parson Thru on

Gracias por las cerezas. :)

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Submitted by celticman on

we fight time, a losing battle. 

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Hi celt. That one is, for sure.

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Submitted by Di_Hard on

you make me think of passing the time of day being like two friends passing a spliff, hoping no one will see them. the idea of free time as a waste of time when we exist only to be earning in order to consume

did you hear about Spain having the highest life expectancy soon?

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Hi Di_Hard.

On that last point, I'm sure corporate technocrats somewhere have a formula that calculates how much "value" they can extract into their corporate towers and invisible banks from any country that moves towards that kind of social wellbeing.

Free time is the opposite of a subsistance existence, which we spent much of the last couple of hundred years moving away from, but evidence suggests has returned with a vengeance. The new order returns free time to being the preserve of the propertied rich. The AI - driverless vehicle gold rush that's about to hit will change that probably. But it will be the kind of free time enjoyed by millions during the early 1980s.

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Submitted by Stephen Thom on

pretty and thoughtful. I think there is a great undercurrent of peace in this despite the yearning and passing years. time is yours, it's a miracle. your own perception of it is so important. Lovely piece

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thank you Stephen Thom.

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Submitted by hoalarg1 on

I enjoyed this, Parson. We're all just passing through, I guess. Time is a great poetic theme I find. So much to say. So intangible, yet tangible.

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thank you hoalarg1. Nice of you to drop by. Yes, I suppose it is. Many ways of coming at it.

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