What Is Time?

 

Time is an opportunity

Time is an occasion

Time is an event

Time is a vacation

Time is a period

Time is a segment

Time is money

Some even lament

Time is a commodity

I’ve heard people say

You will run out of it

One of these days

Time is a constraint

It’s a fixation too

And it has a limit

For me and for you

Time is many things

To different people

But to everyone

Time is universal

When did it begin?

A good question to ask

Go to the Bible

That’s a simple task.

In the beginning God

Yes time had a start

God created time

Check the Genesis chart

Before He could create

God needed time

So God created it

First off the line

In the beginning God

Let me emphasise

And so anything else

I regard as lies

  

Some of us buy time

While others spend it

The wise redeem time

Fools’ waste it as habit

But what is time really?

I would like to know

Is it a particle?

Like ice or snow?

Is it a wave?

And hence why it flows?

What really is it?

Does anyone know?

Is it a force?

Is it tangible?

Could one touch time?

Is that possible?

We know so little

About this phenomenon

Yet it is important to us

Each and everyone

Time has a beginning

For you and for me

But it also has an ending

For everybody

We exist in time

Until for us it stops

God is the sole determinant

Whatever our lot

To everything a season

And purpose under heaven

In Ecclesiastes Chapter 3

In the Bible it’s written

Wise Solomon declared

 A time for everything

A time to mourn and weep

A time to laugh and sing

There’s a time to love

A time for hate to cease

A time of war

And a time of peace

A time to get and to lose

A time to cast away

Time to do what we must do

While for us it is day

Our time may be long

Or our time maybe short

When our time is up

We have to abort

Time may be a day

A week or a year

None of us knows how long

Before time disappears

For as sure as there was

A beginning to time

There will be an ending

At the end of its line

The critical point therefore

Is not a definition find

But redeeming it

Before the end of time

The end of time

Can come in two ways

Either one’s going home

Or the end of all days

For you or for me

Whichever way it comes

For each of us

It will be our setting sun

What is time?

I am still not sure

But one thing I know

In eternity it’ll be no more

Stewart Russell © 2017