Two Minutes

by The Quiet Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

Two minutes is long enough for a kettle to begin, a traffic light to change, a child to ask why everyone stopped. It is not long enough for every name, every letter, every life interrupted. Still, we give the silence its exact small border and try to stand honestly inside it.
51 words · 11 lines · Free Verse
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