We Have Lost Time

the time is going by really fast. days do not seem to last a full 24 hours. the hour seems to pass in the time that i spent in the previous hour planning how i will be spending the following hour. hours do not last anymore, they are simply 3600 fleeting seconds, 3600 droplets of rain that i never felt touch my face. forgettable instances with no form or function, just passing time, just falling rain. there was once a time when the time was everlasting and wholly meaningful. when my soul was a bright room with echoing walls and time filled it with the most beautiful, resonating music and bounced from wall to wall, soul to heart with clarity and purity. when each moment had a pitch, a vibration, a purpose, and a resilience.

what happened to time? we lost it and these days it is nowhere to be found. will it ever come back or did we drain it of its essence. had the last droplet fallen, and that too gone unnoticed and unfelt by us? even by me, who so sweetly adored time? perhaps even i only felt this sweet adoration in its absence. 

we forgot to savor time and it elusively slipped away into unreachable depths. 

we have a problem. 

we lost time. 

we are without time, yet time defines the extent of our existence. without time, we are nothing. there is no extent to which we can reach. 

we have lost time.

we have lost ourselves. 

-S.P. Scarlett