I AM TIME

I was there before you

I am there alongside you

I will be there after you.

I perish every moment

I rise very next moment

I flow eternally, too.

I am a flash for a smitten lover

I am an eon in a crisis tower

I love equal, am to none sour.

I am wasted by the lazy

I am utilised by the busy

I stay calm, never dizzy.

I do not return if I am gone

I still return in a new garb

I am an enigma to absorb.

I am at times tough on some

I am sometimes easy on some

I make variations, awesome.

I have a past and a future

I have no dimensions; yet

I am the fourth dimension.

I am measured in seconds

I am measured, too, in eons

I am bystander to man’s history.

I am adored in times that bubble

I am cursed in ages of trouble

I stand by whether tower or rubble.

I keep ticking, I am time.

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