Contemplation

Time . . .
Weighing down.
Is it there
To oppress?
To depress?
Or to please?
To be taken,
Molded into our image?
Channeled into our needs?
Like Atlas, is the burden
To be shrugged away?
Or like Prometheus,
Is it there to be accepted,
Until one day
We rise above it?

Copyright 1991 Martin Hackett