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Bern's Prose. - Time?
- The ticking of the clock on the mantelpiece told me in no uncertain way that for each tick another second of time has gone never to return. I never know whether I should be sorry or pleased that I possess a clock. I often think that it would be better not to hear the passing of time.
- Other things such as a radio or a television occupy some of my time and I do not even think of time and the speed that with which each second passing tells me that I too am growing older with each tick of the clock. Strangely enough when I am occupied with my computer, writing prose or poems the time flashes past. When my lady wife calls me for dinner or tea, I often think not now I am in the middle of this sentence or another few words and my story will be ended. I literally pull myself away from my computer. No point in upsetting my wife. After all she has spent much time preparing and cooking the meal for me. Again time is to blame, if each second was perhaps a little longer I might have finished what ever it is that I was writing.
- I am not alone in this Time thing; I think that every person on this earth wonders what time is. No one has any idea of what eternity means. Mankind is living longer. People are getting older and older soon to reach the age of a hundred or more will be commonplace and this is not anything to do with time. Hygiene and health standards are improving every year. New methods are being found or invented again this is nothing to do with time.
- What would happen I wonder if no one had found a means of dividing a day into seconds, minutes and hours Would we be better off with instruments to measure time.No one would really know how old one is. No one would remember a birthday. Means of transport would become very haphazard no timetables for trains or aircraft. No programs being printed to tell us what time a program would be sent on television.
- I ask again would it be better if clocks, all clocks were soundless. No tick tock to interrupt ones thoughts or even one’s doings. Would it be the first man to make a candle or would it be the first man to mark the candle to show how many hours have passed. The Candle and the Calendar are the two things that were to blame for men to invent clocks or timepieces. We think that we can measure time, but can we really? I think not for what clock or timepiece could measure eternity. I sometimes hate the tick of the clocks that I call my own. If you have answers to what you think time is please let me know. A short message over Postpoems.org will reach me
People around me remind me of date & time
Your post kept me wondering what is the need of the hourglass? The candle burns for a definite time but a clock ticks on & on & on.One can always use a silent clock or watch. You know my father had a timepiece with a chain.The pocket watch had a sliding lid.See the time at your leisure.It is now a family heirloom with my son.You follow a different time don't you? I follow another !! What is the real time I wonder !!! GMT ??? What if there were 100 hour clocks
Every 100 hours we could count as one "day"... Keeps me musing whether a decimal clock will soon be invented.. 
What about "time" on other planets & galaxies?? So Respected Austromate I happily conclude that there is no "real time" I wonder if any other member on this site will care to put his/her esteemed view on your "timeless" query.Ask any Indian sage he'll tell you about "Mahakaal " i.e. "infinite time" 
~Your ever Indimate~
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I am thinking aboutbanning time in my own four walls. All
Clocks watches to be placed in this container no guaranty that clocks or watches will be returned. All at