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December 19, 2019 3:00 pm at 3:00 pm #1812310Elchonon WParticipant
Forever and a day…
Understanding the past.
Crying out to be noticed
Knowing deep down, it never will.Marveling at how the world
Yearns to forget the past.Always, it seems, buried beneath the rubble
Swiftly the future tramples it away
Swept aside in the current of what’s next.How I want to hold on forever, though…
Over the years I’ve learned
Like a clock, ticking
Everything must come to pass.December 20, 2019 12:51 pm at 12:51 pm #1812569Elchonon WParticipantNew day, new night, nothing seems to have changed
Inching forward or standing still, it’s hard to know
Curious thing, unknown mystery,
Everyone wonders, but there is no answer…Why does time pass on?
Everything moving at light speed
Turn back the clock, and you’ve gone nowhere but the futurePassing by, unnoticed, unseen
Under the radar, it propels you forward
Something, though it’s not there
Swiftly, silently, it sprints forward
Yearning to hold your ground, but the ground moves too…December 20, 2019 2:34 pm at 2:34 pm #1812573Reb EliezerParticipantעת לעשות לה’ הפרו תורתך when we make time for Hashem (meaning I stiil have time to do a mitzva), will eventually not be done. Midrash Shmuel
December 20, 2019 2:34 pm at 2:34 pm #1812574Reb EliezerParticipantThe acronym for the six mishnayos sedorim is זמן נקט to grab on to time and don’t waste it.
December 21, 2019 8:03 pm at 8:03 pm #1812679Reb EliezerParticipantקבעת עתים לתורה translated to steal time for learning Torah.
December 21, 2019 9:38 pm at 9:38 pm #1812689Reb EliezerParticipantThe reform argument is that the times have changed, but the Torah is above time. It maybe implied in איש עיתי המדברה a person going after the times, belongs in the desert.
December 23, 2019 2:19 pm at 2:19 pm #1813265Elchonon WParticipantThanks for your thoughts, Reb Eliezer.
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Symphony of ticking, the clock moves on-
Undercut by the cacophony of life
Cloudy, dazed, unable to hear it all at once
Knocked out by the force of it all…Months, years, centuries pass by…
Yet the sound remains the same.How it all flows forward, we’ll never know
Understand its purpose, we never will
Gain perspective, a futile mission
Escape its grasp, impossible.Pitter patter of the rain, against the window
Electricity pulses across the sky
Not once did anyone wonder-
Incidental, or a matter of continued entropy?
Space itself cannot escape, for time binds it.December 24, 2019 3:21 am at 3:21 am #1813451☢️ Rand0m3x 🎲ParticipantI would generally suggest finishing a work before publishing it.
(Are you sure you know the meaning of “come to pass?”)
December 26, 2019 2:24 pm at 2:24 pm #1814449Elchonon WParticipantI would suggest you reread them before unloading the criticism, my good sir.
December 26, 2019 9:30 pm at 9:30 pm #1814590☢️ Rand0m3x 🎲ParticipantI don’t need to reread a sentence to question the use of a phrase, and I don’t
see how it would matter to my other point (which I didn’t think of as criticism).December 31, 2019 8:20 am at 8:20 am #1815399Elchonon WParticipantAlas, you are correct, my friend. My apologies.
However, the underlying theme of my ramblings remains true. -
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