II. You have me. You use me. Dainty, wilder, exclusive.
I am time: ten minutes before a meeting, two years of silence, a childhood spent under a maple. You have me in the small increments and in the long slow spans that shape who you are. You use me — you spend minutes on hobbies, invest years in someone’s orbit, squander an afternoon on a coffee that should have lasted a lifetime. Dainty time is a tea break; wilder time is the span of a tempest. Exclusive time is the hours reserved for oneself, or for another person, where clocks are optional. When you use me, you burn toward something or away from it. you have me you use me dainty wilder exclusive
I am the light at the threshold: the phone screen in the midnight hour, the porch lamp left on for a returning figure. You have me when you see the glow and know it is for you. You use me to find your keys, to read a recipe, to send a last message before the world sleeps. Dainty light is a candle; wilder light is the flare of a breaking dawn. Exclusive light is the one left burning when everything else is off to guide someone home. Dainty, wilder, exclusive
I am a pen, not ordinary but weighted: brass barrel engraved with a single name. You twist my cap, and ink breathes into the nib like a slow animal stirring. You use me to sign letters, to blot tears into grocery lists, to draft a confession line by deliberate line. Dainty hands coax a thin script; wilder hands press harder, turning loops into knots, sending words darker as if to anchor them. Exclusive: my few strokes are reserved for the signatures that matter — leases, postcards to lovers across oceans, the first sentence of a novel kept in a drawer for three years. You use me — you spend minutes on
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