In Wang Jingzhi's Time is a Scissors, the poet's metaphor of the image of "time" can be regarded as the poet's image description of what?

In Wang Jingzhi's Time is a Scissors, the poet's metaphor of "time" can be regarded as the poet's image description of life. This is an indirect manifestation that he cherishes his life. The poet let the scissors of time mercilessly "cut off" the splendor of life, and let iron whip of time brutally "shoot down" the flowers of life. The more magnificent the metaphor of life, the more regrettable it is to waste life, and the more hateful it is to waste time! How wonderful life is and how heartless time is!