"you've got to take a second to remind yourself that you're only
human
and that you make
mistakes
and that you can be
forgiven
and
remade."
so she did take a second.
only one.
one second out of sixty seconds,
a little more than one percent of a minute.
she took a second,
but she couldn't make herself take fifty nine
more.
so i wrote this after reading "an umbrella for the inferno" by jude rigor. seconds. it's somewhere on that list. i love her poetry, and you ought to go read it.