Cracks between the seconds

“The only reason for time is so that
everything doesn't happen at once.”
- Albert Einstein

Cracks between the seconds
by denny

Between the measured tickings of the clock,
the silent pause when time stands still,
as if the Universe held it's breath and
waited for the next beat of my heart
for confirmation that I was still alive.
In that split second between the beats,
the atoms flickered in and out of existence
as the planets, cupped in gravity's hand,
stood momentarily still in the heavens
waiting for silence to beat it's drum.
As the thought-birds patiently wait
while roosting on neural branches above
the stilled stream of consciousness
that somehow defines my existence.