POETRY: ‘Timezones’

Contributed by: Johanna Go, business major

 

In a split second

a hummingbird passed by in the garden during the

first day of autumnal equinox.

 

Across the globe, a glass-cracking

scream of a mother is heard through the hallways

as she delivers her newborn son.

 

A businessman is fuming mad for being stuck in the middle of the busiest road in Manila.

 

At 8 o’clock in the evening, parents merrily sings

on the first birthday of their only daughter.

 

In that same moment,

a young lad is starving and weak in one of the poverty-stricken areas in the city.

 

All of these happen simultaneously, the clock doesn’t stop ticking.

 

A missed flight

of a 20-year-old woman.

Grand success of a futsal team. Lost opportunity of

a lover who is about to tell his feelings to the

woman he loves.

A married couple reciting their vows on a cliff.

 

All of these are fleeting,

the clock doesn’t stop ticking.

 

They said, “Time is the great equalizer.”1 we are given the same amount of time. It’s up to us on how we use it.

 

We can’t be in two places at once, how we are restricted not only

in the barriers of land mass and the Pacific.

But also Time continuously running, and running out.

 

And all we can do is to remember the feeling along with the memories tied to it.

The clock doesn’t stop ticking.

 

October 9, 2015, 10:44PM

From “In Transient: A Traveler’s Journal”

 

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1 Quoted text “Time is the great equalizer.” is from Dr. Donald E. Wemore.