You've Never Seen Anything Like Two O'clock Poem by Raj Dronamraju

I embrace you as a scientist
And as someone who uses reason
Who views you long term as someone who barely makes sense
But oh the valuable quality of the sense you make

Ask the teacher about the progress of each hitherto unexplained unit of time
The second pristine, the minute virginal
Discuss with the teacher how hard it is to see the decades measured out
What's apportioned without urgency or wisdom

A girl I loved through cast off hours did research by showing moments, our shared moments
What I saw was brand new infinity
The moments were like Tupperware, shiny new containers
And we go forth into the cobbled together, half our own effort, half the fate of not being alert enough, in order to fill up these containers