TIME!

By : Abdulsalam Jamiu B.

At the face of the sea
enjoying the presence of the mist
in corroboration with the chilly breeze of the sea,
the breeze flees north,south,west and east.

I grew quiet with a zip on the tip of my lips
like I'm half asleep
and the moment becomes a flip.

Suddenly! the breeze seize,
the moon,the mist, even the sea
and every other things
plus the jubilant daffodils freeze.
It's like 'Nature' and its devotees:
Life, Fate, Death... had deceased.
The only thing that exists is
the tick tock from the flimsy hand of 'Time.'

My mind sit pensive, so deep.
so! the absence of Time is actually a Time.
Oh! Time will you still breathe even at the end of time?

tick tock your bitty hand still ticks and sticks
blowing  our present to past
and your "winged chariot" still flees
 a very high speed
to invade our dear future.

 oh! our wrongful pasts we can't travel back to
oh!some of our errors still baffle.

 why would you hold our Fate
and we must wait
 till you thrust it to our face.

why did you trick us from then,
stuck us at now ,
as we stand peeping at when.

We stand till our fresh skin wrinkles
and our texcoted hair looses it sparkles.

oh!Time! why do you pose friendly
but, so deadly to human.
why are you our immortal antagonist?