stealing time

this morning I wrote a poem
I had to steal time to do it
I had to hide in a little crack in the machine
I had to write as fast as I could
I had to pump out the words in the shadows between the seconds
I had to hurry so I wouldn’t get caught
and it made me wonder
why my time and my life
belong to someone else
and not to me.

uh oh
time’s up.

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The stealing time by Rick Belden, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.