An Ocean Is More Than Tides and Surf

Measurable time
Is only rhythm,
A very particular
Type of change, not change itself.

We pick various rhythms
To pitch against each other
But the worship of rhythm
Can never tame change.

Rhythmic change is peculiar
Because it creates
The perception of return,

So that the very heart of time
Beats out a fiction
Of timelessness. But each pulse
Changes, and rhythm tricks us.