<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Butler Lantern]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://butlerlanternnewspaper.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[butlerlantern]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://butlerlanternnewspaper.wordpress.com/author/butlerlantern/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Chronos]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Nimbus<br />
<em>Guest Writer</em></p>
<p>What is time<br />
It’s intangible, yet encompasses thy all.</p>
<p>The older thou are, the more experienced<br />
So time begets experience.</p>
<p>Children laugh and play without worry<br />
Yet thou wallow in cynicism.</p>
<p>Cynicism is time and experience<br />
But experience itself is time, so cynicism is only time more.</p>
<p>As thou grow older, darkness seems to overpower light<br />
But light never left, thou only began seeing black.</p>
<p>Darkness requires cynicism and time<br />
Which repeats time a third.</p>
<p>Time is the magic that can heal thy wrongs<br />
Yet it is also the tool for which thou emerge darkness.</p>
<p>Death is time’s ruler<br />
His kismet requires time, and it was so when thou began.</p>
<p>I made one error<br />
Experience only exists with courage.</p>
<p>Without it, thou can’t experience<br />
At the root of darkness, cynicism, hides courage.</p>
<p>The more thou forgo courage, the stronger time holds<br />
The stronger cynicism and darkness form.</p>
<p>Thy courage can fight time’s spiral<br />
Only if thou make courage greater than time.</p>
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