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So many seconds but not enough time. <\/span> The seconds dissolve like sand in the wind.<\/span> \u00a0 So many seconds but not enough time. They tick into minutes and hours and daysand weeks and months and decades sublime.I can\u2019t get them back although I have tried. There\u2019s no second chances, re-dos, or rewinds. The seconds dissolve like sand in the wind.With each passing moment my hope grows more dimthat I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drama-literary","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Seconds-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3958,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/3958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
They tick into minutes and hours and days<\/span>
and weeks and months and decades sublime.<\/span>
I can\u2019t get them back although I have tried. <\/span>
There\u2019s no second chances, re-dos, or rewinds.<\/span><\/p>\n
With each passing moment my hope grows more dim<\/span>
that I have enough time until the end.<\/span>
To show people love and forgiveness and grace,<\/span>
before the last seconds of life tick away.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"