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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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Apr 19, 2015
Apr 19, 2015 at 12:39 AM UTC
Who measured the day?
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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Apr 19, 2015
Apr 19, 2015 at 12:39 AM UTC
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