Quam tempus fugit

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