On the plane I
Play this game with
Time wondering how
Long until we
Touch down
At take-off I
Knew exactly
Two hours and
Fourteen minutes
Because the pilot said so
Over the speaker
Ten minutes in I’m
Already calculating
Guessing that it’s only
Two hours and
Four minutes but
I could be off by
A minute or two
And the number is
Only the start it's
Really how I react when
I know it’s so much longer I
Look out the window at
The roads zig-
Zagging earth
More baseball diamonds than I
Would have expected
And all white when
We pass through clouds
Closing my eyes I
Breathe but
Can only focus on that for
A few minutes
Until I realize it’s
Just a game and
The goal is
To remember that
There’s always something
Going on and
Just because
It’ll take longer isn’t
A reason not to play
Because longer
Is all it’ll ever take and
In between now and
Whenever the long time will
Eventually elapse is
All you’ve ever got