Time is Like Water

Time Is Like Water

Time is like water It gives life but prompts death Its murky marsh enticing you into its depths Unsure of your steps Until it takes your last breath And you see what you were as it reflects

It slips through your cupped hands Cascading like sand through the crippled cracks Illusions form tracks Never quite reaching dry land Always invisible and abstract

Minutes turn to days turn to years As springs flow to streams flow to seas It ripples with a breeze Changing your appearance through tears While it spreads like a fatal disease Time is like water

Cerelia Davis

Illustration by Mark Wu