We are the time. We are the famous [Jorge Luis Borges]

We are the time. We are the famous



We are the time.
We are the famous metaphor from Heraclitus* the Obscure.

We are the water, not the hard diamond,
the one that is lost, not the one that stands still.

We are the river and we are that greek
that looks himself into the river.
His reflection changes into the waters of the changing mirror,
into the crystal that changes like the fire.

We are the vain predetermined river,
in his travel to his sea.

The shadows have surrounded him.
Everything said goodbye to us, everything goes away.

Memory does not stamp his own coin.

However, there is something that stays
however, there is something that bemoan.

-Jorge Luis Borges-

*Heraclitus of Ephesus (535–c. 475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, who was called "The Obscure," and the "Weeping Philosopher." Heraclitus is famous for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, as stated in his famous saying, "You cannot step twice into the same river."