Don’t seize the day

Greet it like a butcher does the lamb to the slaughter

Lay it across your lap like mothers do bad children

Pat it down like T.S.A.

Don’t seize the day

Let it fall from your brows like sweat

Push against it like a body on a subway

Don’t seize the day,

but instead memorize it

Scream it from the mountain tops

Throw it out the window

Slide it under closed doors

Pass it on till you’re playing hot potato with your reflection

Liter the streets with it

Lay down beats with it

Pick at it like strawberries scabs and rose petals

Stop seizing the day

Stop trying to take things that were never meant to belong to you

Don’t you know someone has a plan for you?

Don’t you know someone longs for you?

He commands the sun to rise and the birds to sing songs for you

So stop seizing the day

No need to finish strong… just finish…

And it will all work out

I promise you

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