Reflections of an Artist: Fine Art Photography with a Splash of Prose (53) – Down the Drain

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I laugh during the lyrics to the national anthem… especially when they get to the part about the “land of the free.”

I am a slave to money. I am a slave to time. Want to know what’s funny about that? Time and money are concepts. They are only as real as we make them and, here in the U.S., Time and Money are the King and Queen of everyone’s universe.

Unfortunately, the only way I see to fight them is to get more of them. The “American Dream” is to have so much money or time you can throw it down the drain.

I’m no different from everyone else from that angle, but I don’t want my drain to be a fancy car, or trendy clothes. I want my time to be mine to create, and I want my money to save lives.

That’s this American’s dream; if someone made time and money real, then making my dream happen should be cake.

 

What are these numbered posts all about? Read the introduction to my Photo & 100 Words project and find out!

Reflections of an Artist: Fine Art Photography with a Splash of Prose (38) – Desperately Seeking Time

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Tangled up in numbers

I try so hard to clutch.

Moments slide right past us,

Every schedule like a crutch.

 

Tell me what to do, with all this

Invisible stuff.

Make me believe this substance exists and

Each second I get’s like a drug.

 

Time is freedom;

It’s what we trade away.

Monday through Friday I’m counting,

Eager for day to fade.

 

Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.

I’m counting and counting tick tock.

My prison is real AND imagined.

Everything run by the clock.

 

Tumbling through MY minutes,

In a race that I can’t slow.

Magically at the finish line,

Endings like these always blow.

 

Turning a dream to reality,

It’s crazy, you might say.

My time will one day be all my own

Every. Single. Day.

 

What are these numbered posts all about? Read the introduction to my Photo & 100 Words project and find out!

 

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