You Won'T Do Poor In Calculus Like I Did [you Won'T Have The Chance] Poem by Claire nc Castachino

Fifteen years
Fifteen years of moments
Fifteen years of memories
Fifteen years of heart beats
- skipped heart beats
Five thousand four hundred and seventy five days
One hundred and thirty one thousand four hundred hours
Seven million eight hundred and eighty four thousand minutes
Four hundred and seventy three million forty thousand seconds
- makes fifteen years
Fifteen years
I know you had to smile once
Maybe I could never understand
That one smile doesn't outweigh one thousand tears
Maybe you could never understand
That one person would shed one thousand tears over you
For you
For you I pray
- and I never pray
Fifteen years
The sum of events that could occur in fifteen years
The moments
The memories
The heart beats
The components of fifteen years lost in one second
One second betrays four hundred and seventy three million thirty nine thousand other seconds
Fifteen years
Fifteen years of choices
Fifteen years of decisions
After ten years you started making your own choices
If they're not going to make you happy
- ou should make yourself happy
Make your decisions to cajole you
Why concern oneself with pleasing others?
It's not selfish
- they're selfish
Fifteen years
Six hundred seventy eight million and twenty four thousand heart beats
- can occur in fifteen years
At the end of fifteen years
The smiles
The laughter
- are drowned in the tears
One decision is made
A decision that yields no heed towards anyone other than you
- or maybe you thought that it did
One choice is made
One second is lost
Make the boy scouts proud
Remember how to tie those intricate knots
The six hundred seventy eight millionth and twenty four thousandth heart beat becomes the last
- as the back of a chair collides with the floor
Rest in peace
- knowing that we never will.



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