“Borrowed Time”
Ruth Fainlight’s ideology in “Borrowed Time” is to accentuate that humanity does not possess time. Fainlight writes, “I feel a bit crazy tonight,/my mood heightened, unstable:/maybe because it's full moon,/or maybe because we're living/on borrowed time. But borrowed/from whom? Maybe the moon -/it could be the moon who allows/you to live beyond your due.” Fainlight allots the moon proprietorship of time to propose that humans do not have any claim over time. Therefore, time cannot be suborned to sponsor an eternal existence. Besides, no human is unqualifiedly authoritative to privatize time for it is utterly transcendental. Therefore, time can neither be engineered nor be bid in the stock exchanges like other high-value ventures.
“Ageing”
In “Ageing” Fainlight sanctions her aging emphatically: “Now that I'm really old/there seems little left to say./Pointless to bewail/the decline, bodily and mental;/undignified; boring/not to me only but everyone,/and ridiculous to celebrate/the wisdom supposedly gained/simply by staying alive.” Deploring the aging course is synonymous to being in denial. Admitting aging unqualifiedly smoothens life because it contracts mental anguish. Instead of counterattacking aging, it is overriding to rejoice the landmarks of existence that it epitomizes.
