Time in a line - An analysis

So, I just wanna make a quick shout out that this post is especially for Weng Chung, the guy who used to own this blog and the guy who shared the same b'day! hahaha...oh by the way, HAPPY SOOOO BELATED B'DAY!!!! HAHAHA...

Time
In
A
Line,

I walked passed
the bookshops swiftly,

One
By
One,
They
Will
Close.


Ah Chung posted a comment and he was wondering why on earth does bookshops suddenly appeared in this poem XD Actually, this is one of my favorite poem as I'm tryin to create an illusion that time is always travelling in a single track, a one one way ticket to the unknown future, therefore the vertical arrangements of each word represents the motion of the passing time...it's as if a thread is hanging down from above.

About the books shops, the persona viewed book shops as the different worlds that consists of people from all walks of life since book shops are places where one could find books of any genres and on top of that, the metaphor behind the book shops is a comparison between his stages of life that the persona been through. So, as time goes by, he witnessed more and more people returned to Lord and how the lives of the deceased had lead can only be a fragment of memory in his mind. It is like how one got to know a person and as time passes, we understand their characteristics and who they are in person, is compared to the 'books' that the persona had 'read' and 'studied' from different bookshops.

From a toddler to an adult, one would know how much they had been through. We read colourful and illustrative books when we are young. We got books from another bookshop and we started to pick up a range of more complex words and grammar while we're sent to primary schools and when we travel along with time and how 'swiftly' the person had passed by all the stages in life, he recalls how he had lost most of the memories but just 'snap-shots' of the images in those time-scented books(his memory bank) and how the 'bookshops' actually closed down in his life and it's always time for him to search for another one when 'the-time-comes' for him to move on and he must be ready to accept changes that constituted to the impermanence of life.

So Mr Siew, can you comprehend? =D feel free to give your own opinions and criticisms k? see you guys soon!