Lawrence Hall, HSG
Time is not a Bloody Tyrant
Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 16
Time cannot be a tyrant; it is but a created thing
Like bluebonnets, butterflies, and bumblebees
Painted with pencil or pen by a Hand divine
And set in place as a measure of being
Time cannot be our enemy; we live along it
And like the ground it stabilizes us in place
And like our eyes it gives us vision to see
Each other in our Spirited nobility
Life is not what we take nor what is taken
But what we bring -
Time cannot be a tyrant; it is but a created thing
