What is a year?
365 days unless it's leap year
8,760 hours unless time stops
525,600 minutes.
How many do we use?
How many do we waste?
What is a year?
Is it the seasons that pass?
The sun rising and setting?
That midterm paper you forgot how to write?
Or is it the application you didn't send in?
The tears that spread like a wildfire
covering your pillow with darkness from your makeup
as you wish everything would stop.
The feeling when you ran to your mother
on graduation day.
The sting of disappointment
when you made a mistake
and couldn't fix it.
The relief you felt
when you recieved forgiveness.
The wonderlust that seeps in your veins
as you make up plans to travel
that you don't know if you'll keep.
The silent sound of your heart breaking
when you realize you can't take home with you.
The laughter on a Saturday night
when your friends somehow
make the world seem less bleak.
The longing to hold onto them
when you realize they won't be here forever.
A year, what is a year?
A year is this.
A year is love and laughter and peace
A year is pain and longing and grief
A year is lessons that we forgot to preach
A year is a page in the story of your life
That began a year before you were born
during a page in the story of your parents lives.
525,600 minutes. How many do we use?
How many do we waste?