Appropriation




When I was asked...

*If forever had to be encased
in a single minute,
just sixty tick-tock seconds,
how would you
allocate time
to eternity?


...I sought my thoughts outside the box
The spot where I've got lots of thoughts
And what I got from so said spot
Were thoughts I caught - and there were lots

So here's the lot of thoughts I caught...

I would allocate the
Entire Sixty seconds
To one formidable grain

And while this simple grain will
Abolish what's to be historically
Known as man's worst enemy

A misunderstood metaphoric
Winds of change through
Spiraled fated or shifting sands
May not stake their claim
To my single grain

My grain, will be a
Simple grain of Truth

Can time be allocated
To eternity?

No, it is not a being
It is merely a conception

- Time -

 A series of now-points through existence

An over-simplification sure
But since Being and Time
On a non-metaphysical level
Poetically fail to yield shape
To a proverbial hourglass
It's much easier to space it apart
Rather than think it into a realization

Since we relate to time
Rather than live in time,
Thinking must take the step-back
Out of metaphysics as the history of Being
And pay heed to Appropriation
Which is strictly non-metaphysical

Metaphysics began when Plato
- Separated the realm of -

Being (the Forms or Ideas)

- And the realm of -

Time (becoming, existence)

In metaphysical tradition
Time and being are spatialized
Therefore the fact remains that philosophers
Have grappled with the problem of time
Only to end up in perplexity

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is,
And yet it remains constant in its passing away
Without being something temporal 
Such as the beings in time

- Being -

A matter but not a being
Being is not a thing
Thus nothing temporal,
And yet it is determined
By time as presence 

I am being a Being 
While being in a realm
But may I take 
Being or time, as matters? 

When...

They are not matters if 'matter' means: 
Something which is 

The word 'matter,' 'a matter,'
 Should mean for us now
What is decisively at stake 
In that something inevitable 
Is concealed within it.

- Being -

A matter, presumably
The matter of thinking.

Being and time determine
 Each other reciprocally,
But in such a manner
 That neither can the former

- Being -

Be addressed as something
 Temporal nor can the
Latter-Time-be 
Addressed as a being.

Appropriation (Being) 
And time nearly coalesce
In my analysis without,
However, simply collapsing
Into an indifferent sameness

Time is the way in which
Appropriation appropriates. 

As for Appropriation,
I can neither say that it is
 
Nor that it is given

This would be like deriving the stream
From its source which can 

And cannot be named

How can Being be thought other than
As that which never changes?
 
And how can time be thought other
Than as the perishable,
Constantly changing realm of existence?

- Easy -

By recognizing Time and Being
As concepts to which
We relate to, in regards
To spacing

With a grain of Truth
Time ceases to exist

- Adopt the Truth - 

Eternity is a place 

Not conceptual spacing 

Appropriation