Buy More Time

 We can't buy more time

with all the latest gadgets,

and handy household tools.

We can't buy more time,

however hard we try to

place

displace

replace

the things that surround us.

Time just keeps going,

steady

but now somehow faster.

Sometimes there isn't enough time in the day

to pray,

to read the Bible,

to sit with God and be still.

Our parcels of twenty four hours

keep slipping away,

one after the other,

and we are left,

wondering what eternal value

was accomplished

in ours 

or others' lives.

We can't buy more time,

to preserve in jars on shelves,

stored for future use.

The pendulum clock in the kitchen ticks on,

and on,

and on,

and on,

until 

time

is 

no 

more.