Two minutes and fifty five
Two minutes and fifty five seconds
for microwave popcorn.
Eleven and a half minutes
for a phone call with your mother.
Ninety minutes
for a complete sleep rotation.
Eight hours
from clock-in to clock-out.
Thriteen and a half hours
For airline travel across international waters.
Two business days
For updating your pen pal.
Ten days
For a reasonably accurate weather prediction.
Twenty nine days
For February, sometimes.
Four months
For leaf and precipitation changes.
Nine months
For the creation of man.
One year
For the candle lit celebration
Seven years
For the discovery of blood vessel inhibitors.
Fifty years
Four score
Six centuries
How strange
Our lives built upon a substance
Revered and lusted after,
Fought for and against,
but...
There is naught such a thing
As the precious time we crave.