I like the pace of time. I think that life tends to move on on just the right cadence, and if I had a Time Machine I would use it to lock time at its current pace. Please don’t make it slower — I would die waiting for things that already feel like they take awhile, and please don’t speed things up — I would never have time for other people, and its hard enough keeping up with everything. I know I can’t know everything — its just not possible. I know that if I did know it all then I would die of trauma. I am confused now — I’m just hanging on at the brink of understanding myself.
Time Machine
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Comments
Love this one! It's really nice to hear from the opposite point of view of one of my poems (Time Slip). There's a lot of good points in here and it's really reassuring :)
(P.S, love the trauma bit, it made me laugh. Ur so right)
Thank you so much! I enjoyed your poem time slip as well
:)
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