It Is All a Metaphor

It is all a metaphor.
Yes there is time and there
Are numbers here and there
(And what are they in you? Where

(Is your time and where are your numbers, if
Your fingers are numb?) In heaven, time
Is (a lively creature or
A dye that soaks the curtains. I’m

Sure that I don’t know.) and numbers
Are (silver buttons, perhaps), and what
About you? Are your thoughts here
Here or there? Cold or hot?