Time Comments

Your poem climaxes with a clear statement of its theme, namely, TIME SHALL TELL AND REIGN. What makes it so exciting to read is the lines are packed with images that support this theme. And the images are so vivid, so revealing, so disorienting that I have no doubt this is the simple TRUTH OF HUMAN EXISTENCE. It's often said that TIME of the enemy of the Lyric Poet, for example Shakespeare sonnets. You know from your political experience that time is not the worst or most immediate enemy. But this is not a Poem of 'Witness This poem belongs to the great past of Lyric Poetry, a past that still lives among skilled poets, like yourself.