Our Endless Forward March Poem by Nicholas Moss

Our Endless Forward March



It governs the universe
A forever flowing ichor
Set forth, never to reverse
Running headlong forevermore

Dictating our actions
upon a disc with iron hands
An invisible abstraction
To which we submit to its demands

Day and night
Love and loss
Fortune and plight
Impulse and thought
Sickness and health
Serenity and strife
Poverty and wealth
Death and life

Within those two uneven iron hands
All of these things grow
Carried inevitably forward
By its irreversible flow

For it breaks and mends, plays with emotions
the most miraculous of all medicines
the most potent of all poisons

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Nicholas Moss 18 November 2012

The poem was about time when I wrote it XD. It's something we cannot control, and it controls us, everything we do is dictated by time, our lives and emotions too, events such as birth and death. Time keeps going on and on no matter what we do, it's irreversible. It heals wounds and allows us to forget but at the same time it kills us. Hence the line The most miraculous of all medicines, The most potent of all poisons. :)

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Gwenevere Cornwell 18 November 2012

Oh my goodness! I am starved of breath, Nich! You've sufficated me in the sheer power of your words. It is very philosophical and full of different meanings. Full of contradictions, that leave one feeling mixed emotions (in a good way of course) and which leaves me entirely... lost for words. I think that this speaks of societal dictatorship, and its effect on a person, whether intended to or not, and the strive for individuality. At least, that is what I thought of when reading this poem. It is very well done and full of passion. G

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