Infants Remembered In Silence (IRIS) - Poems

A Day and A Minute

By K.L. Moulden

Born June 9, 2002 at 7:19

Hospital records, cold black and white
Tell of a patient that was born and then died
A life that was given, then taken so fast
With so little time from first breath to last
A day and a minute was all that there was
And the world kept on turning, as it always does
Leaving us, helpless and lost, as we stare
At the once piece of paper with his whole life there

A day and a minute, a lifetime to him
Makes us look at the things that we do
A day and a minute, from beginning to end
So what does his life mean to you
How many days have you wasted?
How many minutes thrown away?
How much love could we give one another
If we only had one more day?
Take a minute to look into somebody’s eyes
Think of the things you have done
And what you would do if somehow you knew
In a day and a minute, you’d be gone

Out of tragedy sometimes we can learn
To build back bridges that we chose to burn
To find ways to give, instead of just take
To do something good, just for goodness sake
To walk barefoot in some soft summer grass
And not let a chance to help someone else pass
For our life is like a raindrop falling into the sea
And we never know when the ending might be.

A day and a minute, a lifetime to him
Makes us look at the things that we do
A day and a minute, from beginning to end
So what does his life mean to you
How many days have you wasted?
How many minutes thrown away?
How much love could we give one another
If we only had one more day?
Take a minute to look into somebody’s eyes
Think of the things you have done
And what you would do if somehow you knew
In a day and a minute, you’d be gone

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