Timekeepers

The following alludes to the chemicals that serve as regulators of the body clock throughout the animal kingdom - and the current research on aging - how the genetic coding is being experimented with in order to prolong life.




Timekeepers

The many faced timekeepers, perched,
like sentinels keeping rhythm over their charge,
keep an omnipresent order over all that twists and turns obligingly
for their gratefull hosts.

They have kept watch throughout time,
these stern masters of their own destiny,
their clicks tock the serendepitous rhythms of life,
for that which mushrooms of the seafloor,
to those that embrace the skies in their flight

And we now, their minions,
probe the artistry of their ministrations,
but let us be forewarned lest we dislodge from their perch
that which orchestrates our constancy,
that which gave us time.

When young I saw the sweeping second hand,
sweeping within me, through me, and intuiting
in all that I saw with fresh and startled eyes,
at every turn, in every sharp intake of breath.