-Stop and Watch-

➳

 

It's not so easy to see yourself

As a single second in a minute

A fleeting moment

A fraction of movement

 

It doesn't help that every minute

Is contained within an hour

Twenty four to bring you

An opening and closure

 

One hour in a day

Consists of sixty minute men

Marching silently

In the shelter of many more

 

A day drifts by title less

A chunk of driftwood in a

Tidal wave of insignificance

Though they culminate in months

 

They come in dozens

Empty egg cartons

Wishing we could all be bakers

To add another extra annual memory

 

A year in youth

Lasts longer than

Your favorite pair of shoes

 

A lifetime is lived

In the people we embrace and

Inside the presence we give

 

Our minds write with a pendulum

Rocking back and forth

With intangible wisdom

 

A seismograph epitaph

Incomplete heartbeat

Static electro pulse

Failing

Written by

Rose Alley

Done