has two meanings
(sort of)
it’s a measure, an amount of time
we sometimes act like it’s fixed,
even though we don’t know it yet
“it lasts a lifetime,”
we say.
“a lifetime’s supply of chocolate”
“a lifetime of success”
but why measure with a unit we don’t know?
one we won’t know, until we can’t know anything ever again
so then there’s another meaning
(sort of)
less of a measure
more of a process
a collection of instances
not the amount of time in your life,
but the time in your life
all of the time:
years,
days,
hours,
every fraction of a second
maybe it still fits the official definition
but it’s also the opposite
(sort of)
maybe life doesn’t have to be about measures
maybe it can be about the pieces the measure is made of
funny how 
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