I give you time… If I could, I would give you time.
Time to waste, as you choose, time for you alone to decide the day and time that fill your schedule with "commitments", which people deserve a date in the slots designated for "unpostponable plans" and which people sign up in the "forgotten" section.
Time, that great gift, so you can decide to get up when everyone else is asleep and stroll through the city to the beat of the music that arises from the caress of the wind on the leaves of the trees that cross your path or, on the contrary, time so you have the freedom to wake up first and slowly sip the most delicious hot coffee while you pretend that the rush of the rest of the world is not for going to work but for pursuing their dreams.
Time, hopefully, to have it, to eat until your stomach hurts, or to fast because today you feel like testing your endurance, or time to put your life in order or to wreak havoc on it completely.
Time, that ethereal treasure, to turn your day into a knight's fight over a lady, to immerse yourself in the fascinating intelligence of Da Vinci, to understand the apparent madness of Mozart, to form Louis XIII's army with your friends, or to transform yourself into one of the gargoyles of Notre-Dame and contemplate the beauty at your feet.
Time, Valhalla of dreamers, to ask of the world and create it as you wish if that's what you need, time to try to change a reality we all believe can be improved, but few have the courage to begin. Time, if I could, I would give you time...
Time to watch the rain hit your window panes, to debate whether The Rolling Stones are overrated, whether the best band was the Beatles or Queen, to learn how to decline the Latin verbs to love and desire, or time to eat everything we never eat.
If I could, I would give you time, but I can't.
So I propose a challenge: let's combine your time and my time into a beautiful hourglass and mix it together. I still don't possess it, and giving it to you is impossible… But if I give you, I give us, the courage to knock over the hourglass and thus prevent time from passing.
Well, no, time, but I do give you the option to share it and thus try to stop it.
Author: SPG