Where to go ...
Ecclesiastes 11:10 New English Translation (NET Bible)
10 Banish emotional stress from your mind.
and put away pain from your body;
for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.
Where to go ...?
Where does the time go? Do you know?
It seems that a light-year appears like a dream
As it overcomes somehow space and time
Through the limit and arrogance as it seems?
What is a day on an ever-turning globe?
What is an hour when caught deep asleep?
Is it not just counted by all of mankind
as a deliverance from the unknown deep?
A second here and a minute wasted
As timepieces are used everywhere.
Aging seemingly persists in hasting
through creation, as only a few care
Maybe in the span of things
time appeared "quiet" long ago.
Not to be understood on a fling
by the ones, who wanted to know.
In a hurry and running out of time.
The movement appears in slow motion
Maybe, after all, is said and done
we hopefully find time for devotion.
Jan Wienen
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