My life before my eyes

it just takes it 7 seconds to flash by

to completely tell the story

of I who existed at some point of time…

 

A second for the lost childhood

spent in a broken home

Another for the love that

was doomed from the start

 

One second was enough

to cover all that I loved

Books and poems and childish games

were still a majority

 

The fourth came and went

with memories of a distant dream

It was bound to be abandoned

Family responsibilities

 

One more second and I knew

It was full of the so called regrets

Then why was it the only happy one

I don’t think anyone can answer it

 

Then it passed and along came

another one, of time with you

For a second, it seemed even shorter

yet somehow longer than eternity

 

And now here it is the last one 

and it has only an incomplete picture

A poem that never saw the light

of the day… was this my life?