Time and Eternity

Time means change

Friends leave

Others die

Life changes

Time means uncertainty

Jobs fail

Health declines

Eyes dim

Hearing fades

Hearts falter

Time reveals how temporary

I

really am

How temporary we all are

Time shows me how little I know

When I think I understand

I suddenly discover

I was only just beginning

Time means this is not the end

Time is the ongoing change and decline

of all we know, all we trust

It's all fading

all failing

all rusting away...

Time means loss

Loss of friends

loss of family

loss of health

loss of......everything!

But ahead of us is something

time cannot touch

It's called Eternity

Eternity will be the day

when time no longer exists

when all that time does well

will no longer be part of reality

The first day of eternity will be

the last day of time

It means that none of the things

time does so well

will ever touch us again

It means the eternal one has finally 

won the day and the day will be no more

Eternity will be the final bell on time 

and all that time contains

And it will be wonderful!