I don't care if I lose an hour

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Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

0 posted 2004-04-04 12:32 PM

I'll never see
4044004
today is only
4042004
and again, time changes.
I'm going to lose an hour.

But I have no regrets,
since I was never expected to BE
at the dawn of 4041950.

LOL, can't you see?
It's really allright with me,
for I have lived
more than half a century,
and that in itself
is beyond what they said
would be the fate of me....

for when I was but
a swaddling squalling babe,
double pneumonia enveloped me;
a casket they did order,
for mom and dad to bury me
alongside brother Darryl,
who had preceeded me for eternity.
So it's just another number
on the calendar of time,
and I am sitting here at a PC
still trying to make a rhyme,
the same as I did when just an ornery kid
who at age five challenged my dad:

"If I can make a rhyme,
then you owe me a dime.
But if I can make you holler?
You owe me a whole dollar!"

And in those days,
a dollar went a long ways.

*sigh*

So I am happy to be here today,
no matter what the calendar says,
and it doesn't really matter
if I lose one hour tomorrow either.
I am happy to be

alive.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2004-04-04 03:39 AM

Kacy, I love your attitude

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

2 posted 2004-04-04 04:28 AM

Yes, happy to BE. Is that meant as an anniversary or birthday? Either way, even at five you perfectly knew what you wanted to be, it seems.
A poetess, and a cute one too, you ARE.
Love and hugs. Margherita

bbent
Senior Member

since 2001-01-07

Posts 521
Alaska

3 posted 2004-04-04 06:17 AM

I'm happy you'r here to grace me and the 21st century with your charms and talent too.

Live like it's your last day...
Dance like nobody's watching...
Love like you've never been hurt...

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

4 posted 2004-04-04 07:40 AM

Hey there poet lady, everyone's happy you're here too. Just to be able to share your poet's perception is a joy.

By the way, did ya get the dollar? LOL

Eric

Ain't doin nothin at all
Just answerin the call
Kinda driftin away from it all~~~~~

zenny
Member

since 2002-11-24

Posts 371
Belgium

5 posted 2004-04-04 08:39 AM

nice attitude

kelly.

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

6 posted 2004-04-04 11:48 AM

thanks friends!
and Eric, yes, I got the dime
and the dollar
but mom took the dollar away, said it was 'too much money' for a little girl!!!

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

7 posted 2004-04-04 04:58 PM

I'm happy you're here too Midnite...

Thanks for sharing your wonderful poetry

Maree.

Beauty of the world which is soon to perish has two edges, one of laughter and one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
(by Virginia Woolf)

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

8 posted 2004-04-04 05:10 PM

thanks Maree! always glad to have a visit with you

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