Lay At Night

Why, you ask, as you get on in years,

Does the days fly by so fast?

Why when I was a child

A day could last forever.

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Well, yes it could,

Especially when you were but a day old!

A whole lifetime in a day,

But the next day it was only half a lifetime.

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When you were a year old

A year become 1/365th

Of a lifetime,

At 10 1/3650th.

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Look at how of your lifetime

A day is now.

Just a little fraction

Lost in all those other fractions.

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But yet, a day is still a day

And a year is still a year

As you watch your children grow

Into the amazement you never dreamed.

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A busy day seems to fly by

Until you look back upon it

From your rest at night

Then it seems an eternity since you arose.

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A day with nothing to do,

All day long seems to drag and drag,

It just creeps along, until you look back at night

And wonder where it has gone.

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It is events that build a day

Many events build a long day

One long event of hardly nothing

Builds a short day.

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So fill your day with happy things

And you have a happy day.

Fill it with sad things

And you have a sad day.

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It matters not, in the scheme of things.

Except to you

As you lay at night

And remember.

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