Ruthless Time

time

routine, schedule

everything was perfect

then unknown to me

why when where

it started going haywire

getting slotted into minutes and hours

time

life

became ugly, with patchworks all over

scraped an hour for dinner

for the kids I could manage just thirty minutes

one day the daughter's test

the son's would be the next

lost were the days of fun and frolic

in meeting the deadlines and accompanying panic

oh!

sacrificed today again will be

the thirty precious minutes of 'me

time' because the kids have brought

the latest blockbuster movie's tickets

tomorrow these three hours

will have to be adjusted, compensated

priorities will have to be re-allocated

how ruthless is this

time!

in between the addition subtractions

of earning and expenditure, the calculations,

the strife for the family's sustenance

started slipping through the fingers

like fine sand are loving relationships

forgotten are moments of peace

it's taking a toll-this madness-

on heart to heart communications

how I wish

I could get some time with this time

so that I could narrate the tragedy

of my life, and could plead

for some extra minutes, extra time

in each day

But sadly, no

not today

because today

I don't have

even a minute for

time.

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