CHRONOS - ΧΡΟΝΟΣ

Chronos

Treacherous, with gifts of youth he seduces;

in haste we fly.

Hollow the hour, with teeth of memories she eats;

insatiable, we cry.

Oh stream, menacingly cruel flow

tantalizingly slow, meticulously fast,

uncontrollable;

Monoecious, you carry us all.

Tremendously vast, and to go back,

impossible.

A dragon you have,

the guard of a precious,

the gold, the rise, your immortality.

Daedaline, you grant delight your very daughters;

moments for us we rape; our vast infinity,

our finitude.

But you escape all.

Treacherous with our plans,

fierce with our moments,

they eat us alive with their teeth; revengeful

our children seconds,

passersby of each experience,

pinch of spice within their father's endless yawn

our meaningful vanity.

Pity not to foresee,

lament to remember;

Even the grief you give you erode. Insatiable.

Elated gallivants in your incessant flow,

Treacherous, you grind us.

Helpless swimmers you leave us,

Silent, you pass us

slow in your spiralling flow, in stealth;

Expedient pour in your abysmal sea.

A rustle we are. Quick so fast and still.

Chronos, vast.

the unyielding, the precise;

I shall steal your precious cloth-of-gold.

Your reject child,

Mnemosene, she is my aid.

and Kleos, she is my secret burrowed path.

A wooden gift I bring inside your home, an idol;

I forged it to represent all.

Timelessness is my work's name.