Do you need time?
Why yes. I need a moment.
A little extra time.
I’ll be with you presently
But right now I need time.
I need some time to clear my head
To think what I should say.
I think I’ll really like this prompt
Once I get underway.
I’m prone to always rush things.
I need to take my time.
I ought to stop and think a bit.
Perhaps I’ll make it rhyme?
Good things are worth waiting for.
They come to you in time
But I will need a moment
To search for rhyming lines.
There’s so much that I could have done
If only I’d had time.
I put things off and now it seems
I’m running out of time.
Yes I think I do need time!
As much as I can get.
I’m prone to waste so much of it.
I dawdle and forget.
I’d like to understand it
The stuff that Einstein said
But all that relativity
Just sends me back to bed.
So I will put things off for now
I’ll do this when I’ve time.
I haven’t got much time just now.
I could have done with more.
I’ve let you down in that last verse
It sadly doesn’t rhyme.
It might have done. It could have done.
I just ran out of time.
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