Linear calendar
Creates nice little squares
Of days and years
This follows that
Circularity makes more sense
Yet even astrology
Has Aries as the first sign
So the days and years
Seem to differently appear
But they might as well be
Lined up in nice little squares too
What can we do
To avoid the inexorable tolling
Of time
Yearly seasons keep count
As we move around the sun
The moon phases rigidly
Orbit the Earth
Drum beats of time
Calculated in sidereal months
Would there be true chaos
If we banned time?
How would we know
The time to go
To school, work, or that all-encompassing word:
Appointments
We are too wired to wait
For doctors, hair dressers, massage therapists
Without an appointment
Time is wasted
I don’t like time
Just another way
To legislate lives
I want us to live laid back
I want night people to work in the night
Dawn people to do their thing
Before birds are on the wing
Poets to write celestially in the dark
I don’t like time
But the calendar says
I must wish you all
Happy New Year
But I swear
And resolve
No more calendars for me
Anyone agree?
© 2016 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)
IMAGE: duna.budapest.hu