Day 107: Fifteen minutes

I write this with about 15 minutes before I head out of the door to take a test. They will tell you that it is with a great need that something greater finds solitude in your head, the little nooks and crannies of your mind are revisited. And it is with this period of lives when we are tested not just on pen and paper , but in moments that we choose to be different. For me I think those fifteen minutes mean a whole lot more when you take a step back, take a deep breath and just believe that you have done the work. It is often the decision to do something that makes a difference, not the actual thing in itself.  Good luck

Fifteen minutes
Fifteen minutes is all that is takes,
To turn something upside down, to mend some mistakes,
To go through it all over again, till there is nothing to revise,
Till you are ready when the pressure over your head, you need no more advise

All the time in the world that can fix things,
In between a song that we all murmur but never sing.
Fifteen minutes to the endless retreat of things you that lie unseen.
It is all it takes to make up your mind to win.

Perfect beginnings are fiction most days,
You do your best with whatever you came with today,
The HB pencils and sheets of papers on your desk,
And the moving hands of a watch that makes you a wreck

Fifteen minutes is all you need, to be brave for a while,
To turn whatever comes your away, to somehow keep a smile.
We are all tested from time to time, we take the exams anyway
Fifteen minutes are all we need, to remind ourselves of the choices we made