Time Trial Poem by Mary Champion

Time's been arrested for speeding-
a danger to life and to limb.
No highway or byway was safe from
the peril that's been posed by him.

Time is a serial killer
with thousands of victims each year.
His methods are varied and vicious,
but the motive is always unclear.

Time often claims he's a healer,
but really he's only a quack.
In the short term he may prove effective,
but in the end, we're all dead. That's a fact.

Time is a merciless stalker
who shadows us all to the last.
Wherever we hide he will find us,
his reach is immeasurably vast.

Time is the thief of our beauty;
our future, our youth and our dreams.
He plunders our health and our vigour
by many nefarious means.

Time has been clocked on CCTV
mugging old ladies and men.
Time has flown faster than should be allowed
and threatens to do it again.

But the rich cannot gain any favours
for there's one sin we cannot ascribe
to this bringer of death and corruption-
Time has never been stopped by a bribe.

Time's on your side,
for as long as it suits
but then, when Time changes,
he won't give a hoot.

Time is a grass,
because time always tells
and there is no magic
in his shoddy spells.

But now we are freed from the terror;
no longer the victims of crime.
The court has delivered its verdict
and the sentence was passed - to kill Time!