Breaking Time

Down

Into its little

Components

Is when one

Realizes

There is

No way to

Brake time

To a complete

Stop

As it is not even

Possible to

Slow it down

Into anything

But each of

Its moments

In which

Oddly enough

Gives credence to

Einstein’s theory

That everything is

Happening

All at once




This led to an unintentional experiment at the dentist’s office, where, essentially by circumstance, I invited a near complete stranger to put two hands halfway into my mouth with tiny clamps and buzzing drills. With just enough room for a suction device of a hard plastic tube to remove saliva since that ability was rendered impossible. Think not. Open your mouth and swallow. I’ll wait….

Anyway, as this slight torture was occurring, it occurred to me I could make each segment of “pain” a little bit shorter by repeating a mini mantra. “This moment has passed.”

“Worked like a charm.”

– Bill Hicks

After being freed from the inverse oral Iron Maiden, I took with me a new awareness that in uncomfortable, painful or anger triggering situations I am able to experience the experience with a different perspective by repeating, “This moment has passed.”




“The phantoms
Of our imagination
Are as real as the
Beliefs in our brain”


– Angelo Devlin