A Breath of Time

Life is Addition
Picture This:
a frozen lake, mary lake
soft with snow,
island at the foreground
beautiful horizon far behind.
a gust of wind.
trees rustle, snow dances
like a figure skater, spinning on ice.
STOP.
it's important. it's a Breath of Time.

Then Picture:
a red leaf, with yellow
veins sprawling,
crisp with dewdrops
grass as the backdrop.
the click of a shutter.
mouths gape, applause rings
like an encore, covered with praise
STOP.
it's important. it's a Breath of Time.

Life is addition,
Every moment a number.
Add all the time up,
and you have an answer,
A life, and every.breath.counts.

-Ben Ankenmann