A Year

365 days in a year,
8760 hours,
525,600 minutes,
31,536,000 seconds.
In the last year, what
percentage of the time
has been spent joyfully
and what has passed-
never to return - by
being negative, critical,
grumpy, down-in-the-dumps?
How many minutes
wasted while I
chose to listening
to complete nonsense,
hogwash, ludicrous ideas
yelled or muttered I
would be better off had
I ignored them. How often
did I speak unkindly,
think about what doesn't matter?
Were all my words and thoughts
neatly catalogued,
the title on the biggest folder
holding most of all that's
in my heart, would be...


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014