“You think you have time.” -Buddha.

My thanks to my friend Kat Wahamaa
at https://www.facebook.com/kat.wahamaa

You Think You Have Time

You have places to go and people to meet,
You have to fulfill the plans that you’ve made.
But that’s quite all right, there’s plenty of time
And so you go on and you’re feeling sublime.

You think you have time to fit it all in,
But it’s a race with the clock to get it all done.
Like always you’ve done, you can manage your time,
No problem at all! You think you have time!

Another request to fit in with the rest,
But that’s no problem, you’re filled with life’s zest,
You’ll tackle Job One, be done in no time
And on to the next. You think you have time.

But you get hungry and you have to stop,
Get something to eat—Oops! There goes the phone.
An hour goes by and you’ve handled it fine
Ten more calls – and you think you have time.

You lay out your plan for your future’s sake,
For you know the pitfalls and what’s at stake…
Be careful you don’t miss reading that sign—
You’ve spent your youth ’cause you think you have time.

Plenty of time for promotion’s career…
Oops! Now you have two more children to rear.
Your wife says the garden needs some lime;
It’ll cost an hour, but you think you have time.

Retirement plans made and Oops! They have gone.
The grey in your hair? Premature of course!
Must be the weather, trees covered with rime.
Still time for promotion…you think you have time.

The kids have gonne on, the wife’s going too,
She’s contracted Alzheimer’s her care’s up to you,
But you can handle this too and handle it fine,
’Cause you are strong and you think you have time.

H. W. Bryce

CREDIT: http://our-kings.deviantart.com/art/time-flies-305692328