Minute Doses Without a Second Thought

Anonymous

If I could take time and snort it,

Would I?

Grind it down and take it line by line,

Each second dripping down the tongue,

Down the throat,

Every moment lasting as long as I wish it,

Minute doses without a second thought,

Injecting the feeling of a longer hour,

Bagging time and saving it for later,

But I’m too scared of overdosing on lost potential,

So would I give it away?

Far too precious a commodity,

Others are not worth my time,

But I wouldn’t keep it,

Because if I did what would happen to the present?

It would be watered down to nothing but a notion in space,

A memory that has lost all meaning,

I’d lay it on my lap and feed it with stories,

While watching it dwindle away along with me.