When Time Stood Still

Sleepy eyed, I looked at the clock

Almost ready to jolt up in shock

Only to find it, poignantly still

I could sleep today to my fill.

Yet deep within the poet spoke

A question within me it awoke

If one moment was all you get

To remember, relive, frame and set

Which one would it be

you always want to see

Would it be the second

you tore out the mail

to find you were in

Harvard, Duke or Yale

Would it be the moment

you looked in her eye

Where time stood still

While the sky passed by

Would it be the time

You woke up sick

to the caress of your mother

with soup, hot and thick

Or the time you ticked a box

scratching away, striking off

The last wish on

your bucket list

Life awaits for us does not

to capture moments in camera shots

Only in our mind we save

Moments in our lives we crave