*If forever had to be encased
in a single minute,
just sixty tick-tock seconds,
how would you
allocate time
to eternity?
...I sought my thoughts outside the box
The spot where I've got lots of thoughts
And what I got from so said spot
Were thoughts I caught - and there were lots
So here's the lot of thoughts I caught...
I would allocate the
Entire Sixty seconds
To one formidable grain
And while this simple grain will
Abolish what's to be historically
Known as man's worst enemy
A misunderstood metaphoric
Winds of change through
Spiraled fated or shifting sands
May not stake their claim
To my single grain
My grain will be a
Simple grain of Truth
Can time be allocated
To eternity?
No, it is not a being
It is merely a conception
-Time-
A series of now-points through existence
An over-simplification sure
But since Being and Time
On a non-metaphysical level
Poetically fail to yield shape
To a proverbial hourglass
It's much easier to space it apart
Rather than think it into a realization
Since we relate to time
Rather than live in time,
Thinking must take the step-back
Out of metaphysics as the history of Being
And pay heed to Appropriation
Which is strictly non-metaphysical
Metaphysics began when Plato
- Separated the realm of -
Being (the Forms or Ideas)
- And the realm of -
Time (becoming, existence)
In metaphysical tradition
Time and Being are spatialized
Therefore the fact remains that philosophers
Have grappled with the problem of time
Only to end up in perplexity
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is,
And yet it remains constant in its passing away
Without being something temporal
Such as the beings in time
- Being -
A matter but not a being
Being is not a thing
Thus nothing temporal,
And yet it is determined
By time as presence
I am being a Being
While being in a realm
But may I take
Being or time as matters?
When...
They are not matters if 'matter' means:
Something which is
The word 'matter,' 'a matter,'
Should mean for us now
What is decisively at stake
In that something inevitable
Is concealed within it.
- Being -
A matter, presumably
The matter of thinking.
Being and Time determine
Each other reciprocally,
But in such a manner
That neither can the former
- Being -
Be addressed as something
Temporal nor can the
Latter - Time - be
Addressed as a Being.
Appropriation (Being)
And time nearly coalesce
In my analysis without,
However, simply collapsing
Into an indifferent sameness
Time is the way in which
Appropriation appropriates.
As for Appropriation,
I can neither say that it is
Nor that it is given
This would be like deriving the stream
From its source which can
And cannot be named
How can Being be thought other than
As that which never changes?
And how can time be thought other
Than as the perishable,
Constantly changing realm of existence?
- Easy -
By recognizing Time and Being
As concepts to which
We relate to, in regards
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