A Lot Can Happen In Four Minutes

 

A lot can happen in four minutes...

The world can end...you can fall in love

A car can be totaled, a web can be spun

A cup can break and be glued together again

A human being can be born while another human dies.

A lot can happen, does happen, has happened

Is happening all the time

But time passes, stands still, moves on, stops

In the blink of an eye and the beat of a heart.

There are those that can read the unwritten,

Hear the unspoken, feel the intangible

And move the unmovable

But those are few and far between, like us.

We belong to the category of "the few"

We don't think like "the many"

We don't live like "the average Joe"

We live in dreams that make reality "bearable."

Poetry is the language we speak

The purpose for our pain,

The reason that we breathe,

The thing that makes our hearts beat.

A lot can happen in four minutes......

I don't even know where that came from

The sentence just fell out of the ethereal

Into my mind and then my fingers caught it

And ran to get it down in print.

Who originated that thought? That phrase?

I have no idea. I only know it must be true

And if it's not, who cares?

 It sounds like a poem that someone needs to read.

Somewhere on the other side of this planet

(And, no, I don't believe that the Earth is flat)

I mean, look at the sun, the moon, the other planets

Aren't they all round?! Why should Earth be square?

And there on the other side of this God-shaped marble,

There are others trying to articulate these same thoughts

But very few, for this world is made up of the conformed

Square pegs desperately being forced into round holes.

Unlike us, we, who are neither round nor square

But uniquely shaped and bent and artistically formed

Into beautifully strange beings, hell bent

Upon finding other beings like ourselves outside of Heaven.

Only creatures like us see the heart shape in a fallen leaf,

A drop of crystal on a rose, the hidden smile on a granite face,

Hear the song the wind sings, the music of the stars,

Find the love in a heart that has been crushed beyond recognition.

A lot can happen in four minutes

Look at what just happened.......

You can receive a thought, peruse that thought

Write down that thought and share that thought

Like I just did. With you.

©by Voo Shining Stone

Jan 10, 2020

5:30 p.m.