By Randy Senna

As things get transformed, and what once was, is torn out....

Tossed into the dumpster with no thought of the life they once had...

I look down into the pile of what no one cared about, and my eye catches the Clock, which stopped just after 2, when it's life ended without love.

It is a symbol of time itself.

Everything has meaning; what we do, and the way we do it, is important.

Nothing seems to matter anymore to most people, as they rip out the old, and change it into something else...

Without respect for what once was, there can be no respect for what it changes into.

Each of us has a clock on our wall...

Our time is limited; what we do, and the way we do it is important.

Uphold old values of Pride and Dignity, and when the clock stops, don't just throw it in the Dumpster, for it represents something quite important

(Ed. note: Senna is the proprietor of Retro Arcade on the Wildwood Boardwalk. He wrote this during the renovations of the former Stewart’s Root Beer, near his arcade.)

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