Tragedy Of Time

By Zayd Ahmad

The tragedy of time is, 

There are enough places to walk to, 

But not enough willingness to go, 

The flight of a bird, 

The crawling of a snail,

The falling of a bird, 

The stepping on of a snail,

Are all places nobody is willing to go, 

They tell me to dream big, 

Write big ass checks to others, 

But there is not enough willingness to go, 

Work seven hours sitting in a dank cubicle, 

Smelling of the PNB sandwich I ate last week, 

There is not enough rum to go around, 

I don't drink anyways, 

There is not enough willingness to go there,

The truth is, 

Some people will never be big, 

Not because they cannot, 

But because they don't want to. 

By Zayd Ahmad