I
Sequence of breath, cold slice of clock,
Blind, dispassionate wedge of time.
Yet Life plants thoughts that ply within,
Coaxing us where we’ve never been,
No distant place, but deep within,
Deep queries on Time through mind.
What is Time’s crux? Can we define
Concept, notion, idea of time?
Is Time finite? Will it run out?
Can Time divide to branch new route?
Can Time move on to meet itself,
And circle forth – to Genesis?
Does Time arise from conscious mind?
Does consciousness arise from Time?
II
For Time to happen, does it need
Perception by a conscious me?
St. Augustine conjectured Time
Does not exist outside the mind.
Could Time arise from conscious thought,
From molecules that bounce in skull,
Produced by brain bits, nothing more,
Mere fabrication of the mind?
My time may halt through dreamless sleep,
But …
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