Falling backwards

Forced by the pressure of time

Deadlines of delays

Crossroads of deadends

Looping through the same old circuits

Running the maze to find the cheese
was stolen before the game was played

Trying to escape the hamster wheel of ruts

Caused by quickness of feet

Unclearness of thought

Catching myself from my downward spiral

I step forward into my center

Unfamiliar ~ mind's talk heard as trailing sentences on far away pages

Time melts like a Salvidor clock

Perplexing me ~ taunting me to come back

Drippping on my forehead as oriental torture

'Til eternities implode to the beginning

I stand in

First time ~ all time ~ no time

Within a second

No ~ that would be an infinity

All answers needed are clear

But the reason for the questions are lost

What was my name anyway?

No one here but "I"

For all is one ~ is now ~ the same as what
is not one ~ not all ~ to the infinite power

And the meaning of the universe is...

Oops ~ second's up

Time marches on as if it never left

Hmm ~ my name? ~ it's out there somewhere

Beyond in the path yet not taken

And what is this clock goo
on my forehead ~ forming new shoes upon my mind

To lead me onward to the land of Freethinking...

Jana Drake
8-31-99
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