This Won’t Take Long

It scars you for life,
But the actual
Cutting ends pretty

Quickly. That’s the way
With the past—it cuts.
It doesn’t take long.

The major events—
Sudden falls, gun shots,
Great supernovas—

Occur at a speed
Unfathomable
To the dawdling crawl

Of the minor days.
Big past happens fast,
But for the most part

You bear with their facts,
And your days go back
To slowly aging.