Jane Frye

Keeping Time

Are the eternalist right?
Is it useless to put up a fight?
Is it all planned out ahead?
Has it all been done and said?
Is the ontology of time
nothing but a rewind?


Or is it the block universe theory,
that\'s making me weary?
Does the past and present coexist?                                             I
s time really an illusion with a twist?

All was going fine,
Until Einstein.
He put it down in a dissertation,
with a detailed explanation.
Hand written and signed.
It muddled my mind.

The Timex, the Rolex,
Buzz\'s Omega Speedmaster, first on the moon,
was nothing more than a fantasy ticking to a different tune.
Just a persistent illusion,
              to perpetuate my confusion.