Wait a second

Wait a second
What just happened here?
You may not have noticed,
it was swept under the rug
hidden in the haystack
watching from under the bed.
Did you hear what They said?
I mean a leap second doesn't happen
every old year.
Or even every other
like Leap Year, Dear.
This is a new one.
Time is starting to unravel,
the loose ends, the frayed edges
know
Time is just a new reality show.

You know
when Time goes slow
or quickly fly's by,
we wonder why
this strange change
hidden in
a phenomenon of sixty seconds
and a hundred and twenty firsts
All in a Day,
we say.

We gained a whole second
and I thought we exercised
our written right
left alone to pursue
our very own happiness;
choosing what to do
with our Life
made up
of
years lived
To Be
erat
vici
eternally
preserved
for all Time.

Since the year 1972
we found
twenty-six
second ticks
Just think
in 2060
we'll have a whole
minute
however
I won't be here
then
again
repeating
the same mistakes
since Time
hit the brakes
for a second
stalling
sixty and six-hundredths
fractions
at any given
Time.

However,
I never
want to waste
or not savour the taste
of a life lived Now
and How
every fraction
of a second
counts
amounts
to more
these days.
I think I'll just
ignore
this ruse
about trusty Time
that's only for
counting down
until our Time is up.



Image of Nurse Nellie Lampton, 1919, relaxing in Townsville, California,[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.