I am time

My dad once told me that time is the solution to most problems. But what if I don't want to wait until time solves the problem? What if I want to solve the problem?

The solution is simple, but not easy. I must become time. But then, what am I but time? What is time but the rising and setting sun, moving hands on a clock's face, rotting food and dead carcasses, growing trees and falling fruit? What is time but moving matter, joining parts and breaking down of constituents?

What am I but all of these? I wake up and sleep everyday, go in circles on a regular basis, wash away dead skin cells in the bathroom, eat vegetables and fruit. What am I but a moving body of organs and limbs, assimilating and disassembling molecules and atoms?

I am time, the ever-changing entity that runs like a thread through a string of pearls. I am time, the intangible entity that exists in every human's consciousness. I am time, the wind, the sun, the earth, fire and water. Fire cannot burn me. Water cannot drench me. I am time.