The Abstraction of Time

Strikes of lightning in the cosmic chaos

Turn the sands of time to molten glass.

Hours swiftly flow into minutes,

While mere seconds bubble over into days.

Moments ooze through galaxies

Past foreign planets and forgotten stars.

The universe explodes with echoes of its history,

An eternity absorbed in a flash of light.

Instances once fleeting, now span for lifetimes,

Stretched between stars like fresh taffy.

Glimpses into the future are visible

in reflections of the hardened past.