We have time... of Octavian Paler

We have time for everything:
to sleep, to run aimlessly to the left and to the right,
to regret our mistakes and to mistake again,
to judge the others and to absolve ourselves,

we have time to read and write
to correct what we have written and regret what we have written,
we have time to make plans and not to respect them
we have time to make illusions and to rummage their ashes later.
We have time for ambitions and desease,
to blame it all on ambitions and details,
we have time to watch the clouds, advertisements or
some ordinary accident,
we have time to chase our wonders away
and to postpone the answers,
we have time to break a dream to pieces and then to reinvent it,
we have time to make friends, to lose them,
we have time to receive lessons and then forget them quickly afterwards,
we have time to be given gifts and not understand them.
We have time for everything!

There is no time for just a drop of tenderness

When we are about to offer it, we die.