What is harmless but can kill you? Elusive yet prominent. This is time, controls all things, and is the most powerful thing in existence. This is why Octavio Paz decides to write about time and some of the things that occur through time. Two of his poems titled The Street and Between Coming and Going dive into time and some of its countless effects on people. The Street is a poem centered on the past. The past follows you, but you still can not see it. The past lingers with good memories or bad memories, either way we still are exposed to it. Paz represents the past as man following him. He addresses the lurking past by saying, “if I slow down, he slows; if I run, he runs I turn : nobody.” This quote has numerous different ways to interpret
