Today I Had Lunch
Today I had lunch.
I had lunch with a man that can make time stand still.
A very serious man is he,
Sprinkled with humor.
From darkness to light,
Does he bring the wonders of the world into your heart.
Silently this can be done,
And madness would not matter.
You see.
He sees.
He sees everything.
He spoke about people before him; after me, and some on the otherside.
Inviting me to see, all that he has seen.
But I listened, and saw just as much.
You have one moment in time.
The past made his.
The present he takes.
As history he makes.
Today I had lunch.
I had lunch with a man that sees everything.
But I saw him, before he saw me.
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Submitted on November 25, 2020
Modified by DAReid on November 25, 2020
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 617 |
Words | 126 |
Stanzas | 19 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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