[Amethyst]: 743.Time

There is no such thing
as Father Time,
who sits back with hourglasses
and watches our lives tick by.
He does not give us "extra time"
for our good behavior or to save lives.
There is no such thing
as immortality.
This belief that with a magic elixir
you can bypass time
and stay young forever.
There is only Life and Death.
Life the purest of fairies
all soft and white.
So small and vulnerable
like it can be smashed any minute.
Death ever so black and big.
It sleeps in our soul,
along with Life who is ever awake,
until our time comes.
The beginning and the end
are always there.
Like the ticking of a clock.
Can you hear your life slipping away?