12 Lifetimes

    

                                   

12 Lifetimes

Just a number

Stuck in between

Good old 11

And unlucky 13

Into its meaning 

We certainly will delve 

This dozen digits

This number 12

Double dice sixes

Are Monopoly gold

Collect your $200

When you pass “Go”

Or a Bakers Dozen 

Numbering 13

12 chocolate donuts

And one Raspberry Creme 

That’s one too many

Even up the count

Take that extra Donut

Shove it in your mouth

Counted in minutes

Or hours or days

The number of months 

That a year makes

Twice every day 

Midnight and Noon

12 months in a year 

July through June

Hudson’s crew played 9 Pins

To Rip Van Winkle’s plight 

But 12 Strikes in row

Are a bowler’s delight

12 half-steps

A chromatic scale make

Two perpendicular dots

In the alphabet Braille

A classical guitar 

12 strings strung

Ludwig Von Beethoven

Used every one

12 Disciples followed 

12 numbers on a clock

12 inches make a foot

12 jurors in a box

From 12 sons of Jacob

12 tribes of Israel were born

From the 12th rib of Man

Woman was formed

Astrology marks our birth

With 12 different signs 

Both of us Gemini

The Zodiac defines

May 27 and June 15

Both are sublime

Because we equal 12 

Subtract yours from mine 

But what can you do 

In twelve hours time?

I’ll tell you some things 

They’re easy to find

Sit on the porch

With a glass of sweet tea

Rock you cares away

Just you and me

Put your hand on your hat

Caught by a Summer breeze 

As you walk down the beach 

Doing what you please

Binge watch a Series

Every single one 

12 hours is no problem 

When you’re having fun

But 12  Hours

That’s a long time 

To do anything

To even drink wine

Yet when we are together 

12 hours do fly

But a 12 hour work day

Will surely drag by

So the next time you pull

A 12 hour shift

Try this perspective 

An entirely different drift

On a day that is long

And Corporate wants 12

Tell ‘em to kiss your “petunia” 

And go straight to Hell

Just turn to the thoughts

Of time spent together

And 12 little hours

Won’t seem like forever

For there’s a sweet place 

We both long to stay

For 12 minutes or hours 

Or even 12 days

12 months or 12 years

Would not be too long

To spend 12 lifetimes

In each other’s arms

John Snelling 

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