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If time were to suddenly stop, would you look around? Glance and catch the earth’s hospitality, Look, no truly look! Just to see what keeps us on this ground, It’s something we humans like to call the planet’s gravity! Something to keep us grounded since we tend to stray. If only for a night you have been hopelessly tossed Trapped in a cage made of your own self-fear. Before long all joy will seem to have been lost, When all my colors have faded to shades of grey, The light’s sweet embrace reminds me to rest for the day, Only then faith can make your joy reappear. If time were truly to stop well such a thing is just too profound, It would take a lifetime to learn something like this at an academy, The defining silence that follows the roar of sound, Grasping the complexity of the situation is quite simple actually, To stop for a day now that something for which I would pay, Living your life at the bottom low cost, Free to choose your own career, To be free to dance in the sun’s warm ray, Sunbeams unknown melt away your frost, It’s a change that you have not before crossed, All of a sudden you see everything clear. For a moment if time had stopped would it have made you happy or felt like being drowned, If the earth wished to stop and have you look at her would you criticize her fantasy, Would you have only looked at Mother Nature and frowned? Are you inclined to chastise her about her own self-vanity? With a heavy weight to carry and given no leeway, Like a wander misplaced in the forest, A time for change draws near, We’re reminded that there will eventually be a price to repay, For crossing nature leaves most in exhaust, It’s a fact of the matter most seemed to have glossed. It’s time to remind them who will bring in a new year,
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