1. Time assails me,

    and I assail it in turn.

  2. Each of us toward the other

    harbors an enmity that never fades.

  3. We wage wars in which

    our defeat is impossible.

  4. So there is no path to victory over

    me or over it.

  5. It is my adversary, yet

    in truth, a beautiful adversary.

Sol 6