Theory Of The Relativity Of Time or Why Days Seem To Go By Faster Now

to a newborn child
a single hour seems like a lifetime
because it is

after a day
that first hour seems shorter
because now an hour is

one-twenty-fourth
of their lifetime

at age sixty-six a single hour
is one-six-hundred-thousanth
of my lifetime

and therefore
is perceived to be much shorter
than my first whole day

this explains why
the woefully inadequate
two hours of sleep

parents get on christmas eve
(after sneaking around
wrapping gifts and shit)

seems like an eternity
to the evil children trying to wake them
at the crack of dawn

but imagine

to rocks
that are millions
of years old

our entire lives
are just
a flash

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