As I glance up
I catch the clock ticking by...
another second gone.
And all at once the gravity of it all hits me.
The loss of one of many seconds in my life...
that one meant something.
It was something that belonged to me...
And I just threw it away.
I did nothing to grasp onto it,
nothing to do it any justice.
I just sat here and watched it tick past
and on to the next.
It wasn't special.
It was passive
meaningless
It is gone.
Forever lost to the passing of time.
And I begin to think...
Time takes away more than it gives.
Oct 31, 2013
Oct 31, 2013 at 5:32 PM UTC
As I glance up
I catch the clock ticking by...
another second gone.
And all at once the gravity of it all hits me.
The loss of one of many seconds in my life...
that one meant something.
It was something that belonged to me...
And I just threw it away.
I did nothing to grasp onto it,
nothing to do it any justice.
I just sat here and watched it tick past
and on to the next.
It wasn't special.
It was passive
meaningless
It is gone.
Forever lost to the passing of time.
And I begin to think...
Time takes away more than it gives.
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