A Student Challenged Me....

by saying it took too long to write anything. Then she challenged me to write something fast.


For Carmil

5 seconds –
how long it takes
for you to tell me
what you want me to write.

5 seconds –
how long it takes
for you to decide
you dislike something
and dismiss it without appeal.

5 seconds –
how long it takes
to change a life
to fire a life
to set one’s mind ablaze.

-- rjm
2004


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