Buying Time

We’re up before the dawn yawns And dressed before the sky sighs, Chirping phones like birds in early morn. Take ten minutes to fly by, Grab food before the car starts- Save time by eating on the way to work. Thirty minutes to downtown In traffic where we scowl, growl At mirrors of ourselves in crawling cars. Now it’s a race to the last parking spot So we get to the building at 9 on the dot But forget that the elevator is no-go And we scale the bare stairs with a newly-stubbed toe ‘Til the forty-fourth floor fin’ly comes into view With the minute hand wavering over the two So we’re late, yes we’re late, there was no other way To get up to the office on time here today No, don’t start please just shut up and sit down and work On a project we hate for a pompous-ass jerk. Spend hours on the bore: four, Spend seconds breathing free: three: A busy bee that functions for the hive. Once the clock has chimed, time Is ours to kill or keep- sleep Of course is number one upon our list. But miles are left to go, though In distance, time, and more, ‘fore We lose the precious minutes of the day. Knowing soon our time is flown We hope to hoard that time we own And steal from others to survive Buying time to waste on useless lives. Three billion beats we have to use, Our heartbeats iambs we can lose- The words that write our little tale Must not falter, fumble, freeze, or fail. Such treasure is each second found! We must take care to share their sound: For what’s the use of time to spend Buying time to waste before the end ?