Baldwin Wallace University - Grindstone Yearbook (Berea, OH)

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Time has nothing to do with dollars and cents (Fish in English lakes ignore shillings and pence Just as perch or pickeral do near home.) Habitats that rise from the clay and loam Of the aging earth obey the wind's clock, And greying bankers are forced to take stock . . . But the prison of chronology (Frequent subject of whispered colloquies) Really is outside the ken of any man. The realm of absolute being which can And does bypass institutions, bodies, Bailiwicks, and bands convened for study Is a force that makes a joke of all Our efforts to be wise, for we recall Almost nothing of learning when dotage Robs us all of our strength and knowledge. Still we’re staying in the search for meaning Though it may be cruel and quite demeaning, Perhaps because we’d hate to have our place Taken by anyone else or, worse disgrace, Perhaps because we’ve nothing else to do And want to pass the time until we’re through. We can’t turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot. our bodies young We are a flash or fire—a brain, a heart, a spirit And we are three cents worth of lime and iron—which we cannot get back. 8 won©

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