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# Father Time
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/father-time/
- Published: 2022-12-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Chronos, he crawls up upon us swallows us, without a drink all god's children got until then life as fleeting as a wink
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Chronos, he crawls up upon us  
swallows us, without a drink  
all god's children got until then  
life as fleeting as a wink

Time is jealous of us fellas  
since he cannot stop or stand  
and our grief, however brief -- that  
he will never understand