Dear Readers:
My eighth grade science teacher, Mr. Green, always used moments of his class to emphasize the importance of time. He loved to recite this one poem titled, "What can happen in a second?", which basically described time as something that is simply what we make of it. Thus, I was inspired to capitalize on Mr. Green's recitations by creating a piece of my own that emphasizes the ambivalence associated with time. Although we complicate it, it is a very simple and friendly concept - rather than wasting it by stressing over its complications, we can always use time to our benefit by giving our best and accepting the results - by learning from our mistakes but never letting them hold us down, because time is time - it will never wait.
What can happen in a second?
The building block of our day.
86400 will have passed by today.
What can happen in a second?
We've become so subjective in our directions.
A second too early or a second too late
Just another second to our 'wasted' collection.
What can happen in a second?
A world can be constructed; the world can be overturned.
Lives can be saved and lives can be taken
Lessons can be learned; fears reaffirmed;
hearts can yearn while memories had returned.
What can happen in a second?
A rush of happiness -- a rush of regret.
It went so fast but it pierces so slowly
A second undermined --
A second of our time
A second left behind.
What can happen in a second?
That blink of an eye in which we blink our eyes
We have an abundance of unrecognized blessings
We fail to prize what can fly by
and never rise
until then we realize
it was unwise to think of it as a surprise.
Had I been prepared
surely every hardship is a blessing in disguise.
What can happen in a second?
What can’t happen in a second?
To cherish the bricks of your own structure
To recognize the present or to see it is a wreckage
What can’t you do with a second?
What will you do with the second?
A second too early or a second too late
The second will be molded -- the second won’t await.
