Challenge
Challenge of the Week LXXII
You (or your character) happen upon a strange pocket watch. You pick it up, dust it off, and tap it a couple times. It's ticking normally. You pull the crown and everything around you freezes. You press it back into place and normalcy returns. Amazed, you wind it forward, then backward, and impossibly, the world speeds up, then rewinds. Time is now yours to control.
Pause
Our modern world spins top speed
A world of swift, electric greed
A world that never goes to sleep
And sometimes, often, makes me weep
Imagine if this world would pause
To stop and savor; ooh and ah
Imagine time would just stand still
And let us linger as we will
I’d stop and smell each fragrant bud
And jump in each puddle of mud
I’d write and draw and sing aloud
And look for pictures in the clouds
I’d wonder at the frozen rain
And laugh, and laugh, and laugh again
I’d see the world with eyes anew
And give my time to those it’s due
I’d marvel in this moment caught
And give it all the time I ought
Imagine when time starts again
That we have learned a kind of zen
With our slow world we’ve made connection
And set aside time for reflection
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