Finding Time by Craig Robertson

Author:Craig Robertson [Robertson, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Imagine-It Publishing
Published: 2021-04-03T22:00:00+00:00

The unending grief and torment suffered by Time was too great for it to bear. What intellect could have? To be the ender of all things, across all times, in every universe in the multiverse certainly was too much to ask of any entity. And so, after uncountable time, time that expanded infinitely into all pasts, there came a moment in time when Time could not live within itself. Its morality had been paralyzed and its once passion-filled heart had grown as cold as the graves it created wherever it touched. It was past self-loathing. It was dead inside, a void occupying every space where rationality and creativity had once flourished without limits.

But time, it turned out, was the only thing Time couldn't end. In a reality brimming with cruel irony, Time was spared no suffering, had no exit portal it could pass away through. Then, in its madness and its fury and its bewilderment, Time hatched the one possible scheme to purge itself of itself. If Time could split itself in two, it could sequester its intellect from its action force. It was not necessary for Time to know what it was doing in order to perform its grim task.

No, the Framework of Time could muddle along, destroying everything, suffering the unconscionable on the entirety of forever and beyond all time.

The one thing the Soul of Time knew even before it acted to cleave itself was that it could and would never forget. Every unsupportable tragedy it had inflicted would be retained in its empty heart for all eternities. But a pittance of solace was superior to no reprieve at all. So Time committed to its own unenviable fate.

How such an act is possible is unknowable to the mortal mind. Where the incalculable power can potentially have come from is and will remain an eternal mystery. Some shards of knowledge are not for us to aspire to, for they are the very definition of the unattainable and the incomprehensible. Suffice it to say—for it is beyond the bounds of the intellect that we do—that we do know that Time sheared itself.

By its nature and role, the Framework of Time had to remain active and observable to all eyes. And so it is that the Framework has rolled along through all of time. It has allowed walls to be built and then destroyed. It makes it possible for civilizations to rise from the mud of their origins and attain the truly divine. And the Framework of Time sees the beautiful flower crushed into the mud from whence it rose, invisible, forgotten, and unlamented.

We have all observed that one cannot see the wind, yet we feel it blow. So it is with the Framework of Time. It is evident to all, but invisible. Where is, physically, the Framework of Time? I am craven and discredited in that knowledge. I cannot say where the tangible, palpable, observable Framework of Time is. Perhaps, as Chi Cho Nouth speculates, it lives outside of itself. Might it be in a parallel reality, infusing itself into our plane? I do not know.

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