Fifteen Minutes

For fifteen minutes I got really angry After fifteen minutes I was really sad For fifteen minutes The stupid traffic turned me into something really, really mad Within fifteen minutes All my life turned from something happy All my life turned from all that was good to bad. A quick decision in anger made Saw red mist fall into snarling rage Those fifteen minutes will forever stay with me Much more now than their worth of a 30th of my daily pay To keep those fifteen minutes I acted so unlike me I saw my nature unfold, oneself was truly betrayed It took fifteen minutes from my foot pushing harder For someone who was living to stop growing old Fifteen minutes/900 seconds is all it took To erase more than a life; truth be told