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( Still) a Work in Progress
Focus your gaze upon the clock on the wall.
let out a sigh
Your book sprawls open on the table,
So full, yet so empty
The messy scrawls seems insignificant
Lies. It’ s more than that
To the daunting task so tall ahead of you.
Not doing that today
You recall:
( turn back the hands of time)
Time is money,
money is time.
All the time you spent idle, aloof,
spent time?
Should have budgeted your time better, or
Barely did.
Invested your time into something meaningful,
Isn’ t this meaningful?
Finishing something meaningful
It is finished!
To completion!
……
You were killing time,
Time is immortal, untouchable
A genocide with procrastination as a blade.
There’ s no enemy to kill
You wasted your time and played, a good trade, or-
or what?
Were you too afraid to start? It was
totally, not scary or hard at all.
Delayed by the mental blockade,
time and time again
You can’ t hoard time like you can money.
Make the most of it
Sunk time in, sunk costs,
liquified assets ≠ valuable time
Living on borrowed time
Just go take another loan then!
Paying attention to all the wrong things,
What, wrong?
Just start already!
Wait a little longer!
Only time
Three turns should do it Can be of the essence. And fix everything.
Jayden Chung

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