{"id":476,"date":"2019-05-19T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/?p=476"},"modified":"2019-05-25T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T15:59:39","slug":"seconds-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/seconds-in-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Seconds In Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"

seconds in motion * by Arthur T. Wilson<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Split seconds<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

A second too early<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> of indecision<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A second to late to view a friends\u2019 body after the casket is closed<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> in motion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

And it\u2019s never a metaphysical quandary or slightly philosophical<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Knowing random seconds<\/span> simply don\u2019t exist or die<\/strong><\/h3>\n

If all seconds<\/span> are eternal seconds danced into forever and ever<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> until the gun fires to begin a fixed race<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> of unfathomable longing<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> to belong or remain alone in a lethal maze of fear<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> declared as the last opportunity for a second chance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> to live<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> to live without being alive<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> to recapture a childhood memory flashing like lightning<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> in motion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> as important as a volcano spewing footprints of psychotic ash<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Allowing earth to do whatever it wants to do whenever it wants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> to explode seconds<\/span> to flow seconds to burn covering fossils<\/strong><\/h3>\n

That fought for millions of years to reveal its\u2019 connection to seconds<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span>, just seconds<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> in motion watching seconds<\/span> become seconds<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> to protest or protect your last blood warm kiss<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When love withdrew and pulled back peace making it an inconsequential pawn of discarded seconds<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> to lose hope turning hope into feelings that feel like sandpaper<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Against splinters<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> to harvest or pull up negativity to wallow in tragedies Sophocles could have written to scare an entire civilization from living<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> for a newborn baby to push from its\u2019 mothers womb<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> for a newborn baby\u2019s eyes to spin like radar into the light out of darkness<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> until a tangible surprise isn\u2019t a surprise anymore<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> to discover you need a miracle delaying its\u2019 arrival<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> to forgive again and again and again or seconds to be forgotten<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> in motion seconds<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Does time know itself as seconds or as nothing?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Or does time emphatically declare that its\u2019 seconds<\/span> are everything?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> thinking of itself as everything always simultaneous so<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds in motion<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> to become a champion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Seconds<\/span> to become a lost child<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Or seconds<\/span> to become a shooting star born from a sweet song out of gods\u2019 mouth<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Every second.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By Arthur Theodore Wilson (c)2011<\/p>\n

Arthur Theodore Wilson <\/strong>is a Published Poet; Playwright; Teacher; and Co-Editor\/Publisher over thirty years of Attitude Magazine.
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seconds in motion * by Arthur T. Wilson Split seconds A second too early Seconds of indecision A second to late to view a friends\u2019 body after the casket is closed Seconds in motion And it\u2019s never a metaphysical quandary or slightly philosophical Knowing random seconds simply don\u2019t exist or die If all seconds are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}