Tuesday Poem: Two Kinds of Time, by Meliors Simms

Two Kinds of Time



In some universes

time is experienced as linear.

Individuals move through their lives

cutting a track into their possibilities

and paving it into permanence behind them.

Aware only of the winding road they have chosen,

looking backwards down the line from now to birth

looking forward into the obscure thicket of the future

sometimes, peripherally aware of a bare hint

of what if's as what isn't.



In some universes

time is experienced as a plane.

Beings move around their...