a clock isn’t a clock at all
it’s a stopwatch
a tape measure
to tell us the distance
between two points of interest
but since our interests are always changing
time itself changes
depending on what we’re measuring
are we measuring lifetimes
or lunch hours
are we measuring how long we have
until we get to lie in bed
or are we measuring how long we will have
to lie in bed alone
every hour is different
depending on what we are doing
what we are feeling
sometimes an hour goes by
and another year has passed
sometimes it takes a year
to get past the hour
and sometimes
the end of an hour never arrives
we need clocks that will listen
that will understand
what we are really measuring
what we are really asking
if we are to truly know what time it is
