Numbers and Time

Numbers and time ~

Constructs of modernity and urbanity with

amounts, weights, sizes;

time lines, timeliness;

not enough time, too much time on our hands

shaping and informing tasks of

home

community

career 

When did their importance imprint on our psyches?

grade school,

high school

any formal school 

where time and numbers invade each

classroom

semester

exam or quiz outcome

total grade school year’s end ~

informing and shaping interaction with life outside of self.

Numbers and time live together on

clock face - old-fashioned ticking and tocking or digital LED lights

or in squares on a calendar that

define walls, floors, ceilings of each day

marked with numbers and names.

Numbers and time

meld together wrapping themselves 

in and around our lives to form and shape

how quickly or slowly we move

whether through need or want.

So numbers and time on our earthly clocks and calendars

remain limited fixed visual cues,

so humanity can measure it’s progress against history

and project timeliness for the future.

From dawning to setting sun

moon rise to moon set with

their unchanging phases and

innumerable planets and stars in the sky,

there is a universal guide for all that we

see and do

sense and feel.

The emotion of our hearts and

intuition of our souls can

ignore calendars and clocks to

match the steady turn

of the sun, moon and stars.

“Time is.. Too slow for those who Wait

Too Swift for those who Fear

Too Long for those who Grieve

Too Short for those who Rejoice

But for those who Love Time is not.”

~  Henry Van Dyke