“Time” / Unpublished

Synopsis

A young girl is curious and uneasy about what is “time”.
If it passes, where does it go? How fast could it be?
The land of unsolved mysteries for this girl is a forest. She ventures there to find a tree that in her mind is the tallest, as she can’t even see it’s top, or where it could end. Maybe “time” can’t reach the top of that tree? Can “time” climb? She sure can, and decides to climb so fast that nothing could chase her in that joyful adventure.

Focused on her plan she doesn’t notice the tree starting to turn like the clock’s hands. The time passes, sky changes from day to night. At dawn, she lands in a reality, that could be the same place she started from, to meet a strange creature. She thinks she’s in a new and undiscovered lands and is not surprised to see a weird being. As her imagination adds her bravery, she converses with the creature, which explains her that she cannot outrace the time and sometimes it’s best to just stay in the present.
She becomes friends with “time” which she feared and made her uneasy before.

“Time” is a picturebook, which is both a visual and written poem, that could speak to children and adults (reading the story to their children) alike.

Time

There was a girl who wanted how the time passes see,

So she went far and far to the forest end,

To find the oldest and tallest tree.

As she started to climb, she said:

“When I’m fast enough, I’ll leave the time far behind”

Sure of herself and in excellent mood,

Up she went as fast as she could.

“What a joyful ride!”

Through the sun, moon, stars,

To jump, fly run and… slide.

“Ah, I must have landed in the past”

“Or is it the future? - I’ll better ask the creature”

“Time doesn’t stop to wind” - the creature said

“Just look and see - you’re standing by the same tree”

“Like the clock’s hands it goes round and round,

Impossible to outrun or measure it’s width, weight or size -

Yet we can sit here together and watch the sun rise.

Let’s not think what to race and how,

But just stay in the now.”