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Created on: April 15, 2008
Time
First with sun
Then with sand
Now with hour and minute hand
Watching as the day goes by
For some it drags
For some it flies
Dictates our wake, our work, our play
As we grow old it slips away
Ten minutes lost to this here rhyme
I'm such a slave to Father Time.
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