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Jun 2016
If I gave you an hour
Would you spend it
On inconsequential nothings
Thinking it too short to do something worthwhile

If I gave you a day
Would it pass you by so quickly
That tomorrow looking back
You would wonder where it went

If I gave you a year
Would it fade into the stream of your existence
Just another fleeting summer
One more sure step toward death

If I gave you a lifetime
Would you, looking back
Wish for an hour, a day, a year
A lifetime – another chance
To make it worthwhile, to do it right
What got me going writing this was a sidewalk sign in San Francisco inviting me in for lunch ‘if I had an hour’.
Tom Lewczyk
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Tom Lewczyk  SF Bay Area
(SF Bay Area)   
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     Jamadhi Verse, --- and Tom Lewczyk
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