You watch it haste and watch it fly,
Why try espy it flashing by?
Now you see it, now you don\'t,
Then you heard it ~ now you wont.
First it\'s here and then it\'s gone,
Much the same for everyone.
Like a cloud high in the air
Glance once more and it\'s not there.
Like a bubble drifting past,
though you know it cannot last.
A tranquil breeze, the bubble stops ~
Attempt to touch! the bubble pops.
Where it stems from no one knows;
No one sees to where it goes.
You know it\'s there but you can\'t find...
As not a trace it leaves behind.
But man can\'t beat this mighty force,
To try and try he\'ll fail, of course;
He\'ll never grasp the wheres and whys
Quam tempus fugit ~ how time flies.
ASJ