I am saving time for the future
when I might not have so much left
or for my children if they run out.

I’ve been storing minutes and seconds in a box
under my bed and sometimes I find
an hour lying around and throw it in too.

I make sure to close the box tight –
I don’t want time to escape from me.

When I am an old man
I will have a lot of time
in the box under my bed.

POET’S BIOGRAHICAL SKETCH: Daniel Rosenkrantz is an American living in Berlin, Germany. Daniel has self-published two collections of poetry which he wrote while living in various European countries and also India. Daniel has previously been published in Carpe Berlin and Storyteller. To read more of Daniel’s poetry, please visit www.danielrosenkrantz.com.