are we measuring time  
or is time measuring us?  
 
how old is time? where is its 
head and where's the tail?  
its beginning if not the end?  
 
does it go in a round or  
in a straight path? does it  
need space to realise  
its own identity?  
 
are we measuring time 
or is time measuring us?  
 
how old am i? where is the 
head and tail of this state of  
being, this consciousness?  
 
is it longer than time? Is it as old  
and large as the universe?  
 
if everything becomes sterile 
100 years on, earth will be 
as quiet and red as mars 
time as ever goes on, a  
measure of the unviverse 
 
will time be sleeping then  
in the bossom of our consciousness?  
 
or will we be sleeping in its bossom 
instead, waiting to be resurrected,  
a component of matter, of time?  
 
a pendulum that goes to and fro,  
to and fro, to help us get a grasp 
of the universe and its workings
john tiong chunghoo
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/measure-2/