Something unexpected happened today. I awoke to the news that we had a 25 hour day, yesterday and the time has shifted from +3gmt to +2 gmt. I was messed up in the head this morning when I found out.
In my 21 years, this is the first time its happened. I had to sit down for about 30 minutes to get my bearing straight. It was confusing trying to decipher if the 11 am lecture I was having today meant 11 am old time or new time.
But then again, thats one of the great things about living in a different country; you get to experience new things. I sure wouldn’t be experiencing any time changes if I was back home.
That being said (I just had to air it out), welcome to another Writer’s Quote/Poem Wednesday. I do hope the poem i’ll be sharing today doesn’t put a damper in your mood. I found it beautiful and melancholic.
Middle Age by Pat Schneider
The child you think you donโt want
is the one who will make you laugh.
She will break your heart
when she loses the sight in one eye
and tells the doctor she wants to be
an apple tree when she grows up.
It will be this child who forgives youย again and again
for believing you donโt want her to be born,
for resisting the rising tide of your body,
for wishing for the red flow of her dismissal.
She will even forgive you for all the breakfasts
you failed to make exceptional.
Someday this child will sit beside you.
When you are old and too tired of war
to want to watch the evening news,
she will tell you stories
like the one about her teenaged brother,
your son, and his friends
taking her out in a canoe when she was
five years old. How they left her alone
on an island in the river
while they jumped off the railroad bridge.
Wonderful!
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Thank you ๐
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OH My! Don’t quite know what to say! A moving poem for sure! I think you described it well, melancholic. Glad you shared it.
LOL about the hour change! I am very used to that, but I can see how it messes with your mind when you aren’t used to it! Our time change happens this week-end. I say I am used to it, but it still messes up my sleep patterns for a day or so.
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When i found out we had a time change, I remembered the post you shared about getting for An extra hour of sleep due to time change ๐. Finally, I can relate! ๐
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Nice poem Ameena.
And 25 hour day… really!!
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Thank you! I’m glad you like it. We did! I’m still trying to get used to the new time and much earlier sunset ๐
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Great and take care
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So beautiful
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It really is. I’ve been reading it over again
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oh the time zone thingy can surely mess me up too. and the weight of the poem you shared. amazing!
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It was my pleasure to share the poem. I love it
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i love it too!
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