Stopping Time

Why won't you stop?
Why won't you just listen?

I need a moment

Or maybe more

Till it all sinks in

From the moment that I started

With you as my constant companion

A shadow in the watch

A friend, sometimes a foe

An observer in oblivion

Till the highest of peaks

And deep into the oceans great

In school, in the mall

In office, in my hoe

Like a pendulum, you gyrate

Breaking me from within

And teaching me to move on

You are the teacher, I yearn for

When I reach out

You are long gone

O Time, yet again I plead

This is one moment that I need

The moment when you freeze

This moment in sorrow or in glee

Will never tend to cease or be freed

I need this moment to catch a breath

To sit in quiet and retrospect

To just stop running for a while

All I need is a moment to smile

And I plead and inflect

One challenge after another

Sometimes more than one at a time

I have fared through it all

Sometimes taking a toll

Other times with a shine like dime

Today is not any other day

The words fall short for what I have to say

Wanting a moment is a wish

Waiting for a shooting star, under

The starless night I lay

A moment for me

A moment for you

If you stop, the moment anew

Hold my hand, let me walk you through

When you stop, the moment comes true!