Five and a Half Minutes - Katie Thompson

Every five and half minutes the universe expands four miles

And every time I blink another child enters the world

The world has six and a half billion people this year

And there are eight million people in this city on this island

But right here and now somehow you’re sitting here

I may not ever catch my breath

No matter how I try

And I may never understand how

Every single day we breath twenty three thousand times

Because watching your chest rise and fall

The numbers don’t add up

When all we are is

A hundred trillion cells

Two hundred and sixty bones

Five quarts of blood

Forty five miles of nerves nerves nerves

And a hundred thousand hairs

And too many organs

And sixty thousand miles of arteries

We must have been made by a man

Cuz a woman would have made us more economically

I don’t know what that means

All I know is that I’ve seen this scene some years ago

And I would swear I’m watching from the stands

And I would swear I know the second before you reach for her hand

Feels like it’s some old movie

But the scripts no good

And the girl’s no beauty

There’s the evidence, more facts

But there won’t ever be a silence of

The way you find or keep or measure

Love

How do you find or keep or measure

Love