I Got Time

I GOT TIME

©Ana Sastrias 2013

You have been with me and against me

You, the inseparable element in my terrene reality

Time

You enter my body and my subconscious mind every second

Human beings think they can control You and measure You

Time

The flow of things, the wind that pushes the trees and the leaves that fly away

The changes of colours in the sky, the different seasons, the urge to eat and sleep

Time

The image in the mirror of myself that reflects the different facets of age

The different way my body works and moves slowing me down

Time

If you did not exist, we would not exist as well

We have created You and we have been victims of You

Time

I do not care about You all day, but I know You exist

I hate to be submitted to the rules some people created about your use

They say, at this hour you have breakfast, then morning tea

Then, at this hour you have lunch or “dinner”, then afternoon tea

Then, at this hour you have dinner or “tea”

I got Time and I want to use You as I please

I want You to be my friend and my best companion

I do not want You to be my slaver, mi villain, my nemesis

A Deadline, like if our Destiny was to be at the front of the battle ready to be killed

They say that “Life is too short”, so why suffer so much about Time?

But also it is true that shortage of Time can drive us into Despair

They say “Time is Money”, but I would say that you cannot buy Time

You cannot go back in Time and experience again your childhood in your kindred body

Only in your memories

Only the demented or vegetating people possibly can do without Time,

But I must admit that they would drive everyone else around them on the Clock

Now I got Time in solitude,

Something I have not been used to for quite a while.

It seems that for so many years yearning for spare time and not having it as much

Has left me vulnerable in front of so much spare time to think about how to use it.

It looks like I have been the beneficiary of a Will that granted me Spare Time.

So, Time is not relevant

Time is always there

Time does not disappear or hides away

What we make relevant is the Use of Time

The Use of Time has defined cultures, businesses, institutions, education science.

The Use of Time has shaped our physiology, society, habits, communications and rites.

The Seconds, Minutes and Hours, 

Days, Months and Years, 

Centuries and Millenniums

will always be there in the Ether.

Our bodies are changing in Life until we passed on to Death, but Time continues and overpasses our Existence.

Time contains us All

We all share the Time in different ways

Time has shaped us All 

until we cannot hold Life

defining our remain Existence

I got Time

I got Life

I Exist

Ana Sastrias

25-04-2013

South Penrith, NSW, Australia

8:00 pm