Times

There was no time
when I was a child.
I had to go to school,
learn this and that;
rest was homework
parents busy running
errands and for other things.

I grew up, fell in love,
started a family
found time still chasing me,
mindless rolling in between
work and home
never knew when I was
reposing in company
or restless alone;
vacation a check
 in the box to do
the routine I wondered
I ever knew

It rings, it stays,
it chimes
yet it pickpockets everyone
day and night .