Quam Tempus Fugit

You watch it haste and watch it fly,  
Why try espy it flashing by?  
Now you see it, now you don't,  
Then you heard it ~  now you won't.  
 
First it's here and then it's gone,  
Much the same for everyone.  
Like a cloud high in the air  
Glance once more and it's not there.  
 
Like a bubble drifting past,  
Though you know it cannot last.  
A tranquil breeze, the bubble stops ~  
Attempt to touch! the bubble pops.  
 
Where it stems from no one knows;  
No one sees to where it goes.  
You know it's there but you can't find...  
As not a trace it leaves behind.  
 
But man can't beat this mighty force,  
To try and try he'll fail, of course;  
He'll never grasp the wheres and whys  
Quam tempus fugit  ~  how time flies.