Time can heal... but will it?

its strange how time can change us
how mere seconds and minutes add up
to hours and days, weeks and months
and then to years.
how one second you think you could never be sad
the next moment you are
how one minute all things look promising
the next never darker
how one day you've got the world behind you
the next you're all alone
how one week you feel absolutely priceless
the next somehow in debt
how one month you could touch a star
the next you can't get up from the ground
how people can be one this year
and worlds apart the next
i guess i want to know- what about the next second?
the next minute? what about tomrrow?
will it hurt like yesterday,
or be as great as last week?
will a month make it better...or worse?
will I be as happy I was last year
next year?
will we be close again...
ever?

mjk, 1995