21

21

The clock strikes 12
The bell tolls
mournfully

No one hears the silent cry
The question why

No one notices.

But then
a glimmer of light
shines through.

A book beckons me
calling my name
with the voice of a siren

entrancing me
telling me
to flip it through.

A quote caught my eye

“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.” 


and suddenly
It hits me.

Why should I mind so much when the problem is not with everyone around me but with myself?

Epiphany.

And I am at peace.


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