time

i see you

you see me

what you see is what will be

your view on my identity

one encounter leaves a mark

it could even light a spark

to learn a face

a simple task

but to learn a name

and make it last

to know someone

their personhood

represented by a word

what's a name do

on this earth

in the mind it represents

a being's being

not their worth

just what it has been

ever since birth

or since creation

coming to be

names hold the place

of concepts formed

experientally

over time we learn to know

not things in essence

but things indeed

their impact on our sensory

perceptual facilities

only knowing what we see

what we feel and what we be

what we hear and what we fear

time allows concepts to form

given a name we know a storm

katrina first was impending

days later the storm ended

but weeks and months and even years

passed with many many tears

and now katrina represents

more than just the coming storm

concepts form and concepts change

in a day a name can range

meaning can become quite strange

what is time to a mind

never able to rewind

the force that lies behind

all we know of any kind