The Passage of Time
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Time passes
Quickly
the clock ticks
Away
roll the days.
A child is born
Eyes open wide and she take in the world
Days turn to weeks
to months
to years.
She grows and learns and
time passes
Quickly
She is off to college
growing, learning, studying
trying to keep up,
to become successful,
to become somebody.
Long days and late nights come and go.
The clock ticks away.
Quickly
She starts a life for herslef,
entering the work world,
the adult world,
the real world.
Busy street and bustling bodies swirl around her
as if she has been placed in the center of a hetic hurricane.
She works, starts a family, tries to keep up as time passes
Quickly
She has aged.
Wrinkles spread across her skin
and her blonde hair has greyed.
She sits back and watches,
cars rush past like the seconds
people dash by like the minutes.
She wonders where it goes
and how it goes so quickly.
She realizes that despite her greatest attempts to keep up
Time passed
Quickly
the clock ticked
Away
rolled the minutes.