What does this mean?
I mean the stated theme,
Well let’s go there
And see what we can glean.
Living on borrowed time
Means you should be dead
But for some unknown reason
You are still living instead.
You have led a charmed life
Tempting death at every turn,
There have been near misses
With living rights earned.
It is called cheating death
In a moment of time freeze
When the grim reaper lurks
And his quest is a tease.
Some have all the aliments
Found in any medical book
Yet they still continue to exist
No matter how they look.
His life is hanging by a string
Or he is at death’s door
Are two more terminologies
We have heard before.
Living on borrowed time
That’s our subject today!
And it appears that over some
Death holds no sway.
A race car smash-up!
Driver walks away unscathed;
It’s not the first time either:
Once more death he evades.
Death on a proverbial leash
Like the ferocious bull hound,
Thus far and no further
No matter how he bounds.
Not all are this fortunate,
Some so easily capitulate
Making it all the more puzzling
How others escape.
It is like time is allotted
Not to individuals but a group
And the time not used by one
Another can recruit.
Hence, this borrowed time
That another is living out
Had belonged to someone else
No longer around and about.
One can’t die before his time
But is this really true?
If you hold to the preceding verse
This cannot be your view.
Then again, the time one gets
May be time prior granted,
Hence the borrowed time position
Would have to be recanted.
Thus, living on borrowed time
Goes through the door
And the time that you live
Is what you were granted before.
What is premature death?
Tell me, and how can we judge?
When your number is called
From that you cannot budge.
There is no borrowed time:
Neither shortened nor extended
And whenever life’s clock stops
That person’s time has ended.
Living on borrowed time?
No such thing I perceive
But make the most of my allotted time
Is the admonition I receive.
Stewart Russell © May 18, 2021
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