BETWEEN THE BLINKS

 I am often amazed how quickly time flies by.

How so much seems to happen in the mere blink of an eye.

For there was a time, not that long ago

when for us life took an ironic twist.

A time when we were nothing…a time when we didn’t exist.

Then, in the blink of an eye, somewhere in the universe

it was decided, decreed…perhaps fated

that, in the blink of an eye, two people would fall in love

and in the blink of an I we were created.

In the blink of an eye we opened our eyes.

In the blink of an eye we were walking.

In the blink of an eye we were thinking.

In the blink of an eye we were walking.

In the blink of an eye we were married with a family a house and a job

In the blink of an eye we were retired…

In the blink of an eye, if we’re lucky, we realize

we have everything we ever desired.

For when you reach a certain age

you find you have a lot of time to think

and you realize what makes life meaningful…

what makes life important

what gives life it’s beauty

is what happens between the blinks.