It's okay you can laugh

Its funny

It's traumatic

no its funny

i made a joke

are you okay?

I made a joke

so what if it was a little dark

its funny

I laugh at this title,

this ridiculous deadline.

Why so serious?

The beat plays on in my head.

Fourteen years...more...

I do not know how long

The countdown has been ticking.

Fourteen years.

That’s longer than many people have

Married,

Worked,

Studied,

Lived.

Fourteen years.

Quicker than the cycle of el Niño and la Niña.

Longer than I've been driving.

More time than I can really imagine.

Fourteen years.

It can take fourteen seconds for your life to change forever.

Fourteen days to receive your failing test grade.

Fourteen weeks to wear yourself thin.

Fourteen months to drift away from the one you love.

Fourteen years...

And you ask me, "Why so serious?"

To which I respond, "It's all the time I know I have."