That Moment
By inertia4
@inertia4 (27960)
United States
September 21, 2016 4:53am CST
The seconds tick by
like an invisible wind
unnoticed by senses
A breath, a sigh
another breath and then
that second passes
That moment, that second
that one snippet of time
is captured in history
At first that one second
was great like a fine wine
it ultimately told a story
The past has been written
the future, unsure
but that second will live in infamy
It has been written
that time is a cure
for all of our uncertainty
That second, that moment
was just passing time
and will never be again
That second of torment
is a thin fine line
and it will begin again
Copyright © 2011 Steven Cetta
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit : CoolText.com
inertia4, That, Moment, inertia4poetry
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13 responses
@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
21 Sep 16
Nice one. Cherish every moment and live life like it's our last. We could never turn back time but we must learn from our mistakes and start anew.
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@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
22 Sep 16
@inertia4 Unfortunately, not everyone does.
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@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
22 Sep 16
@toniganzon I know. But we hopefully can look forward and change things.
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@Firestorm0122 (735)
• United States
4 Oct 16
Beautiful poem. I've come to realize that either we want time to slow down or we want time to speed up. In either moment, we've come to depend fully on time.
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@Firestorm0122 (735)
• United States
7 Oct 16
@inertia4 You make a good point. At times while I'm doing something, my mind will flashback to an event that had happened years ago. It's like it had happened yesterday. To me I think time is both precious and at the same time a slavemaster depending what it's used for. When you have a short life-span, time is precious. You never know when you'll last speak to someone or have a last chance to do that one thing you want to do.
On the other hand, when you have to be somewhere at a specific time and you can't make it at that exact time, there's the risk of increased anxiety. I've seen times where people were fired from their jobs because they were a mere five minutes late. It's sad to think of the pressure we put on others by expecting them to be somewhere at a certain time and when they're five or ten minutes late, negative emotions flare-up. Now if a person is an hour late, then sure. Call, find out what's going on. But a few minutes late? There's no need to panic.
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@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
6 Oct 16
Time is like magic to us humans. We look at time as if it is a solid object to hold onto. But it is not. We create memories with photos and videos and even writings. But we all tend to forget many things. I like to believe that life, our life cycle, is like a video that was recorded and is still happening in the time it happened.
@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
8 Oct 16
@Firestorm0122 The structure of time was created by man. So as for the pressure others put on us it is all fake. We all should never have to punch a clock. That is not normal. We were not supposed to do those things. But time is also something we humans use to gauge things with. So there is good and bad in everything we attach to time. We are also part of something bigger in this universe. We just have not figured that part out yet.
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
21 Sep 16
I will take a second to think on this, 
. hehe, very lovely
. hehe, very lovely2 people like this
@crossbones27 (49463)
• Mojave, California
30 Sep 16
The second your life flashes before your eyes. That is what this made me think of.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16766)
• China
21 Sep 16
We know what happened for the past second,but not the next second.It only takes one second for us to make a mistake.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
1 Oct 16
the now vanishes into the past even as we say it - terrific poem
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@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
12 Jan 17
@arthurchappell Wow, thanks for that. I really appreciate it.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
12 Jan 17
@inertia4 you are greater than you think
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@OreoBrownie (3755)
• Commerce, Georgia
15 Oct 16
Beautiful poem and timely. Each breath time flies by and doesn't stop until the last breathless is drawn.
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