The world goes forward For better or worse Time travels at the speed of light Toward its own destiny Artists toil under the canopy of forgotten memories In the age of technology Does anyone care We surround ourselves In a glass bubble of our own making Shielding the sun’s rays from reality While bending them into conformity The bubble bursts And time is thrown into the vortex Screaming for surrender A temper-tantrum of fate Grasping at straws Yet knowing no relief Forever the moment Held in a wine glass of shimmering incandescence As the world goes forward Without relief