Leaping Time

What I was little, it was an eternity to wait for summer to come, and then it was another eternity to wait for summer to end. The year was incomprehensibly long, to wait for New Years, to wait for birthdays, and to wait for high school. Somewhere along the line, time shifted and it all goes in a blink. Is it that when you are older, there is less to wait for? Or, is it that when you are older, you do not want to wait anymore? Whatever it is, New Years after New Years just pile on and tomorrows become yesterdays as if todays do not exist. Time seems to accelerate like the speed of a tailspin. Now they tells us that the Earth is actually slowing down and a second will be added to this year. A second! Like that will make a difference. How about adding 365 days and a second to this year. The clocks and the heavens will sync either case and we can fool ourselves into thinking that time has not passed us by without us noticing. Maybe then we can remember how to move the yoke and turn the rudder to get out of the spin.