ONE SECOND IS ETERNITY (An Original Poem)

The older you get the stranger your perception of time becomes. Sometimes a year can seem to pass so quickly it feels like an hour but ten years can feel like a different lifetime.

I can remember this particular moment like it happened yesterday. I was in my early twenties, depressed from a recent break up, feeling sorry for myself, and lonely in general. All of my friends had other things to do that night and I didn’t want to sit at home alone so I got in the car and just drove.

I found my way to a public park and got out of the car and walked. As made my way to the middle of an open field it began snowing. The flakes were large and floated to the ground in slow motion. The moment was magical and time seemed as though it ground to a halt, it felt like I was the only one in the world.

All of a sudden an immense feeling of calm and well-being washed over me and I knew I was going to be okay. This was the precise moment when this short, simple poem was born, nearly twenty-five years ago.

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ONE SECOND IS ETERNITY

Enlightenment
can happen
in the least
likely of places,

like a field
of falling flurries
with not another
soul around

the ground
is blanketed,
so soft and white

the hard edges
of reality
are hushed before
me like some
long sigh

now,
one second
is eternity.

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