The needles of time, it is so really right, <br />You can’t get it back, it just passes by. <br />When you’re in a rush, you find it slips by, <br />When you’re doing nothing, it always respites. <br /> <br />You can get it back, <br />But you need patience, of course, <br />To invent a time machine, <br />So you can fly through time. <br /> <br />Just count sixty seconds, <br />And you’ll find it very simple, <br />To write a lovely poem, <br />Of this very kind. <br /> <br />It’s not long, it’s just short, <br />That’s what you really say, <br />“Just five more minutes with the television” <br />You’ll switch it off that way. <br /> <br />When you forget to bring or submit something, <br />“I’ll bring it tomorrow” you say, <br />But tomorrow never comes, <br />Because you are made that way. <br /> <br />Keep track of time, <br />Or you’ll lose it, <br />Time is really precious, <br />The needles of time never wait anyway.<br /><br />Meriam Joseph<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-needles-of-time/
