MILENA FILIPPS

time and Time

Milena Filipps | Prose

I

Authentic Time is found while time sleeps. It usually sleeps around 4 a.m., when we evade it by being awake - or half-awake, but present.

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II

4 a.m. expects you to await, not to hate it. This is why your alarm clock is of no use. It only measures time, which is a number, but never Time, which is the sky.

III

Colours merge into one another. A piece of silk keeping the air cold and quiet; reducing the wind to a short breath of an indistinguishable season. Spring, summer, fall – doesn’t matter, as there is only one morning.

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IV

Do you remember the sky in War and Peace? It’s still the same. It tried to assure you it hasn’t changed; but that was given up long ago.

V

To be understood by people, one has to internalize time.

VI

Lanterns and lights scattered across the city are of no use anymore, but they don’t know it yet. Clouds use the sky as a transit point.

VII

It would be too easy to claim the morning sky for yourself. There is still time, as long as a demand for logic and rationality remains intact. At 4 a.m. we teach the sky to understand.

VIII

Never asleep. Never truly awake.