You probably can't. You know the month, the day, the week. There is a clock on your wall or on the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie.
Yet all around you timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check his watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays.
Man alone measures time.
Man alone chimes the hour.
And, because of this, Man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures.
A fear of time running out.
Time
shifting and flowing
sliding through your fingers
the sands of time are constantly falling
whether a grain at a time
or falling in torrent as it flies by
never stopping
and you're trapped in a big hour-glass
aware of every grain as it falls onto your head
afraid that if you don't dig fast enough
the top will be empty
and your time will run out
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