THE ONE SECOND AGO

THE ONE SECOND AGO

Now I know

Life is a passing of everything 

An inexorable procession of moments 

I am so far away from one second ago

I will never meet her again

But I knew her

Each second carries me further away from the one before it

The transient flavors of my breakfast have dissolved into a memory. 

The melting sweetness of my KitKat

A bittersweet nostalgia

The yearning for bygone moments resonates with a poignant truth

It was too quick

The transitions are too permanent 

Well,

Perhaps all that life is, is missing

An acknowledgment of its ephemeral essence

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