T.S. Elliot - Before

BEFORE


There will be time
there will be time,
to prepare a face to meet
the faces that you meet
there will be time to murder and create,
and time for all the works and days of hands
that lift and drop a question on you plate;
time for you and time for me,
and time yet for a hundred indecisions,
and for a hundred visions and revisions,
before the taking of a toast and tea.

(The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Elliot)