How We Lost the Time

Impermanent ones did this

Made time a construct

then a commodity

Enshrined it in copyright

Carved district zones

Grades and delineations for trade

Commerce

Management purposes

Implied coercion long enough

translated to

Any exercise of inherent freedoms

warrants permission

Application pending approval

Motion became currency denominations we had to buy

alongside barcodes we had to glorify

in worship at productivity’s altar

Though Earth fashioned our bones

it was Spirit who seeded us

as gifts from the Everlasting and Ever True

Our return a law unbreakable

Thus contentment followed comfort

wrapped in new flesh

And in this innocence

they saw opportunity

Salivated over potential earnings

paid subscriptions and contracts in perpetuity

under legislation of such oppressive thickness

we could not breathe it

but somehow

adapted to survive

and in so doing

birthright fell from memory

We continued to clock in

for work

family

friends

nonprofits

but never ourselves

Conditioning complete

Conclusive

Foreign body inhalation

and aversion to any belief

that time

was ever free

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Originally published at https://medium.com

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