time ticks quickly
its insistence echoes through my bones
dates mean as much to me
as raised voices do
and both whizz past in a blur
the way cars do on a highway
because that's all i am, a kid playing in traffic.
i am no more a child than the girl i was ten years ago
i have, in fact, shrunk.
i have been crushed upon being released,
wrangled by the wind before i can begin to take flight.
the most enduring thing society has led me to think is that
i am simply incapable of living.
i am a sad impersonation of the sun -
shining so brightly for others, though inside,
i am lethal vacuum.
Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014 at 12:01 PM UTC
time ticks quickly
its insistence echoes through my bones
dates mean as much to me
as raised voices do
and both whizz past in a blur
the way cars do on a highway
because that's all i am, a kid playing in traffic.
i am no more a child than the girl i was ten years ago
i have, in fact, shrunk.
i have been crushed upon being released,
wrangled by the wind before i can begin to take flight.
the most enduring thing society has led me to think is that
i am simply incapable of living.
i am a sad impersonation of the sun -
shining so brightly for others, though inside,
i am lethal vacuum.
