on time

what is going on?
eight days a week would be fab
more hours in a day helpful
why do we only get those sixty minutes, seconds?
time moves too fast at times
then again too slow
or is it us
letting the grains of sand slip through our fingers?
later, soon, before too long
in a minute, just a moment
don’t you get it?
this is an emergency
people are dying
while protocols are being debated
complications unravelled
accusations and denials argued out
history is documented
words carefully chosen
people are dying

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n.b. Another Christmas is just five months off. At this rate, Gaza will be gone by then.

CLP 25/07/2025