IF TIME WERE TO WRITE A DIARY.........

IF TIME WERE TO WRITE A DIARY...........

If   Time were to write a diary, of
What would it write-
Ages, aoens  and stages,
Of geographical changes and spaces
and anti-Christ figures,
Or Clocks and Queens
Of defeats and rejoicing victories
Of historical  heroes  and Golden Ages ?

If Time were to write a diary, of
What would it speak -
Frightening thunderstorms,
Gentle showers and multi-colored flowers
of creatures great and small,
with  life of many forms
Of birds and butterflies;
or loving zephyrs
touching the leaves gently
on their way to the clouds......
or superb rainbows with
Angels perched on them,
Or scorhching sunlight on parched arenas
and soothing, silver moonbeams...
or would it speak of Earth, and  its seasons
and its  many moods and hues
of mountains, plains, rivers and streams ?

If Time maintained a diary,
would it  make a record -
of  the human stage,
of youth and age,
and babyhood days;
of boyish bashfulness
and teenage blues,
foolish girly charms,
and womanly views;
of chivalrous gents,
holding a wise demeanor
upon their brow
which age  may lay waste
when old and bent they are
from the waist ;
Or of dreams and visions
or of goals and missions,
of sorrows and joys
and heartaches and smiles ?

If Time were to write a diary, then of
what would it therein tell -
tales of saints and sages, of seers and sin
of  the seven heavens and  one hell;
of readers and writers-
conquerers and marauders
of the mind's  mazes-its wanderings
or the Heart's meanderings......?


If Time were to write  its diary,
would it not write-
of its seconds, minutes, hours,
of its days, weeks,
its years and decades;
or of 'unearthly' Time
having varying dimensions
of its own self-negation-
and of its own Eternal nature
 its own Timelessness
and of  its melting into Nothingness.......??



    Neelam Sethi
    12-09-2012.
(to be further editted)