Wednesday, June 01, 2011

The Measure of Time

I want to live in a place
where life is measured by the world that surrounds.
Where distances are measured in days of walking.
Where time is measured by the evening flight of crows,
or by the turning of the moon, or snowfalls in a winter.

Where years are measured in the rings of fallen trees,
Where hours are measured by daylight
and sleep not measured at all.

To exist in a cylical rhythm rather than in miles per hour.

How much futher can we segment time?

from EONS
to ERAS
to MILLENIA
to Century
to Decade
Year
Month
Week
Day
Hour
Minute
second
nano
.
.
.

And where
is the measure of a lifetime in that?