Spring Forward, Fall Backward

You speak of me as a thing

Gained or lost

Fast or slow

Scarce or plentiful

Good or bad

Right or wrong

Before or after

Blessing or curse

Friend or enemy

First or last

High or low

Up or down

Flowing or slowing

Flying or creeping

Gift or payment

Money or nothing

Master or servant

Change or same

Spent or saved

Beginning or end

Short or long

Start or finish

Easy or hard

This or that

Full or part

For or against

Come or gone

Measurement or estimate

Costly or free

Conserved or wasted

On or off

Remembered or forgotten,

Kronos or Kairos

Era or epoch.

 

 

You are right and wrong:

I am what I am,

Both/and,

Spring forward and backward fall,

Every-thing at once,

No-thing at all.