I caught a second by its wings
As it was flying by.
I don’t know who was more surprised,
Me or the second-fly.
It fluttered helpless in my hands,
Unsure of what to do.
I asked it, “What are you about?
Where are you zipping too?”
It settled down, lost deep in thought,
And in the wee-est voice,
It said, “Well, really I don’t think
I have that much a choice.
I can’t live in the shadowed past,
And though I’m here right now,
I have to keep on moving through
The currents that allow
My dreams to live beyond today,
I freely let them go,
And now I’m striving to catch up
To see their lovely glow.”
I shook my head, it made no sense,
“Why let your dreams fly first?
Perhaps if you had held them tight
Your dreams could be coerced.”
The second-fly let out a laugh,
The tinniest of sounds,
“I guess you do not understand
The freedom that surrounds
The dreams that are allowed to fly;
It means they’ll always be
The things that I’ll be flying to,
Just watch and you will see.”
And so I let the second go,
So precious though it seemed,
But fly it did, so straight and true,
With wings that it had dreamed.
Reowr 
Just one of a kind my dear! hoot hoot don’t stop the toot!
I like owls. Hoot hoot!
no no no owls go whoo whhooo!
whoo? Whhooo! Whhhoooot!
lol
Great poem. I really like how you personified time – really clever and creative.
Hehe glad you liked it. Many thanks for your kind and generous words. 🙂
If you see any hours from last month flying by, don’t catch them. I’ve got a big swatter somewhere that should see them off nicely.
I’d be more than happy to let you handle the big ones. I don’t think they’d be as cooperative as my little second-fly was though.
simply brilliant, loved this!
Glad you loved it! It’s more simple than brilliant, but I like how you put words together. 😉
“simple” brilliance is by far the best kind, maybe it should read – “honestly” brilliant ?
Hmm, I think I would lose in a game of semantics with you. I will settle for “honestly glows somewhat more than dully”. 😀
semantics aside (because I’m suddenly losing…) I really got a lot from this, Its exactly what you hope for in your reader feed … read it, stopped procrastinating, started writing again. Thanks x
Very artistically created. Great words Actually it was a fun read
I’m very happy you enjoyed reading it! 🙂