There was never enough time.
For that.
No time for the things that mattered but were not deemed essential.
No time for the space that was given no paths to traverse.
None for the slow breath that could have allowed a pause
In the constant
Race.
Because there was never time.
For that.
Too much buzzed already
From the break of dawn to the collapse of night.
No time for
Time.
And so, she stopped it.
Stopped time.
She let the hands rest.
Let the heart expand inside the fluttering confines of the
Chest.
She let the breeze
Set
The pace.
The leaves, believe.
The ground stretch long and wide beneath
The feet.
The skies expand across
The dawn.
To let
The space that had
Held on,
To finally
Allow itself to be
Redrawn.
For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge
Na'ama Yehuda 
Stopping time to make time! That’s a unique idea
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Sometimes one must do what one must do … 😉
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If only we were that powerful
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Well, we can, in a way, stop time, for a time …
In choosing to make time where we do not measure time.
Brief, perhaps, but a respite nonetheless.
Or so I try …
🙂
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Yes, that a good idea.
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🙂 Now, if only I was as good at following my own ideas as I am at giving them … 😉
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Haha!
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😀
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This is sublime. And so true (the not having time for time!)
Beautifully done, my friend.
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Thank you, Dale! We get so wrapped up in trying to DO and in not having enough time for this or that or the other things we wish, need, hope, dream, plan to do … That, I think, sometimes we need to stop time for a time …
Better said than done, given how much I have to do … 😉
But, yeah, the walks in the park. Breathing in the rain scent. Snuggling. Sitting in the empty spaces between tasks and words and calls and obligations.
It’s a time. Out of time.
Some of the time … 😉
xoxo
Na’ama (who will make time for a walk in the park again today!)
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We really do. And I have been forcing myself to sit and read, colour, go nowhere, do nothing…
All those things: walks in the park, et al. Absolutely.
I’m meeting some friends tonight for dinner and a show. I need to force myself to be enthusiastic about it! I am not an Amy Schumer fan. I don’t hate her but let’s just say that the fact these tickets were free tipped the scales in her favour 😉
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As a child I know says: “I Love Free, It’s Good For Me!” 😉
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Smart child
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🙂 Yep. Empirically tested, too! Park is free, so it’s good for me!
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Even better!
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😀
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