Fleeting Minute

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Counts down the last few seconds to a dying minute, and the birth of a whole new one.
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That's all that time is to me now-
Waiting on the inevitable turn of the next.
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Each new minute dawns and fades almost as unnoticed as the last. As time slowly progresses through the minutes to the next hour, you start paying more attention.
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As though watching the clock more closely will keep this minute alive longer. As though somehow by sheer force of will you can prevent the minute from changing.
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You'll try fruitlessly to prevent the minutes from counting away, all you want is to keep from the next hour. The hour you'll have to turn to her and hug her and kiss her like you'll never see her again. Because that's kind of how it feels.
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But despite your best efforts to make the moment, the minute, last, life's inevitability has brought you to this moment. Through the minutes fading away, and the minutes to come. But more importantly to this particular minute. The minute that's passing represents the realization of a new hour.
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That same hour that you'll spend driving home, alone, in silence. That same hour that you'll pretend everything's going to be okay when you know nothing shall stay the same. The same hour you'll spend sitting with your head in hand scared of the future yet again. That same hour.
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Minutes fade into minutes. Constantly changing, constantly the same. No matter how you look at it, a minute is a minute. 60 seconds, nothing more nothing less.
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But these minutes feel different. As they slowly drag like an assassin removing the knife from your fragile frame.
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Yet no matter the pain you feel, no matter the joy you experience.
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No matter how fast or slowly they may pass.
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A minute is still a minute- a fleeting moment in time.
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And time gives no preferable treatment.
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Time comes and time goes, yet time will always be.
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