Who counted hours out of the sky
And clipped the ends off?
Who quantified
Existence?
Who cheapened the flights of the sun and the moon
And put limits on time
Trapping limitless eyes?
Each day
Is one thousand days and each hour
Is one thousand hours, and
Years pass in seconds
While seconds last lifetimes
Sometimes
But my calendar
Has no capacity for this.
A moment
Lasts as long
As the glow lingers
When it's gone
And all the while
The clocks tick on,
I maintain whoever measured
The day
Was wrong.
Apr 19, 2015
Apr 19, 2015 at 12:39 AM UTC
Who counted hours out of the sky
And clipped the ends off?
Who quantified
Existence?
Who cheapened the flights of the sun and the moon
And put limits on time
Trapping limitless eyes?
Each day
Is one thousand days and each hour
Is one thousand hours, and
Years pass in seconds
While seconds last lifetimes
Sometimes
But my calendar
Has no capacity for this.
A moment
Lasts as long
As the glow lingers
When it's gone
And all the while
The clocks tick on,
I maintain whoever measured
The day
Was wrong.
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