SYNTHESIS AWAKE, AWAKE | Page 14

time Time is a lucid thing. Shadows that dance; slowly Cuffs you at the wrists Chains you at the hip Drags you down, down, down Until it don't matter no more. Yet we pass it down from sun to son, as it keeps ticking and ticking without really talking or speaking. It bended for Dali It will bend for Space But will it crack like glass when we shatter the last alarming reminder of life, like Hook? I admit, it does confound me to seek to control a God that I have created to control me. When I no longer need it; If it shall ever wish so, I will sink deeper into the galloping hills of madness. 13