Sixty Seconds Poem by JJ Evendon

If you had sixty seconds what would you do?
Would you take someone in your arms and say 'I love you? '
Read the last page of your favourite book
or, just flick through it, and look?
Would you watch a second hand move slowly round
as it sweeps, try and listen to the rhythmic tick-tock sound?
Sixty seconds is neither short, or very long,
but how much time do you really need to remember something, that's soon gone?
Whilst I ponder, I take my kettle and fill it over the sink,
sixty seconds is enough time to make a cup of tea, for me, I think.
Suddenly, the meter runs out, no electricity, so can't see
Help – anyone got 50p?