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As I look back on some three years or so of writing, I can’t help but notice how many times the theme of time has come up in various writing challenges and how many words I’ve written about it, as fascinated as I am with the whole concept of time and the way it sometimes seems to pass by so very quickly and sometimes (though not as often at all) creeps by so very slowly.

So I was thrilled to see time as a CPC Collab theme this week with the following “required” line. Needless to say, I had a lot of fun going back through my own pieces and borrowing some favorite lines of my own and creating a new piece with the always-wonderful Collab lines posted in this weekly challenge that I would never miss . . . .

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BEYOND TIME

BY BARBARA

A CHERYL’S PALS’ COLLAB

Tick-Tock, unwind the clock!
Turn back those hands
so gripping my heart.
Racing around the clock as they do,
round and round,
when will they stop,
the hands of that clock?
Trying to keep up with their pace
I’m simply losing my mind
as they simply leave me
forever behind
and wishing I could
slow them down
those hands of time.

Slow it down,
I plead again,
the time has simply gotten
so very much out of hand
as yesterday’s todays
fall into the abyss
of memories lost
as I try reaching back for them.

I try so very hard to ignore
the loud ticking of that clock
and the hands as they move
around and around
and around,
the precious hours
slipping by until
suddenly
and without
any warning at all,
the time that seemed endless
is forever lost and gone.

While I can’t
help but notice
another year
has slipped by,
I resolve today
to grab as much
of what’s left
before it gets
too far away
and leaves me
fretting about it
once again.

I’ll take some of that time
that’s so fragile and fleeting
to smile,
to hum a tune,
to say a little prayer,
to smell a flower,
to look at the sky,
for natural beauty
is what there is to see.
And ignoring the hands
of that clock that distress me so,
I remind myself once again
that there’s no need to worry,
for the passage of time
is all in my mind
as living beyond its boundaries,
tomorrow is another day.

(c) barbara kausteklis 6-11-11

Thanks to Fellow Time Seekers:
Lady “Cheryl” Death, Falling Feather,
Angel Love, Rebel, Diane, Dori,
and Me, Barbara.

Link to today’s Collabs and Saturday Share:

http://www.friendburst.com/blog/42760/saturday-share/

The lines I used, in addition to my own:

TICK-TOCK, UNWIND THE CLOCK — LCD (required)

beyond the boundaries of time I roam (falling feather)
Tomorrow is just another day (Angel Love)
No need to worry anyway (Rebel)
Round and round when will it stop (Diane)
the natural beauty is what I saw (Dori)
Trying to keep up with the pace and losing my mind (Michelle K)
The passage of time is all in the mind (marthamagenta)

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Link to all the lines submitted this week:

http://www.friendburst.com/blog/41789/line/

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These Collabs are always such fun to try
and my Saturday wouldn’t be the same
without trying at least one of them.

Thanks always for your visits and comments
and wishing everyone a most wonderful weekend.

~barb~