More about time

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

minutes are rubber bands
stretched and released with a snap

but
whatever is doing the stretching
and the snapping back
is unkind

because five minutes without you
can seem hours,
and five minutes with you
fly past faster than thought

if this is sadistically linked,
if time moves fastest in joy

then I want to spend my days in fast forward
with you.

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About Susan L Daniels

I am a firm believer that politics are personal, that faith is expressed through action, and that life is something that must be loved and lived authentically--or why bother with any of it?
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16 Responses to More about time

  1. Kyle's avatar Kyle says:
    June 25, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    so sad and a wonderful point too

  2. nelle's avatar nelle says:
    June 25, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    Snap! Reminds me, though wholly different subject matter, but part of it reminds me of Joan Armatrading’s Everyday Boy, one of my favourite songs.

  3. Rhonda's avatar Rhonda says:
    June 25, 2012 at 5:04 pm

    i want to stop time but can’t. want to slow time it won’t. fast forward to joy i would, but am afraid to also. damn time anyway.

  4. Green Speck's avatar Green Speck says:
    June 26, 2012 at 10:42 am

    Lovely Love poem 🙂

  5. Bruce Ruston's avatar Ian Moone says:
    June 27, 2012 at 7:13 am

    Very nice and Time is good with me catching up on my emails and reading your poetry backwards in time 🙂

  6. Noel Ihebuzor's avatar Noel Ihebuzor says:
    June 28, 2012 at 11:55 am

    Really nice! Powerful!

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