I can go back years in my mind
and still
that changes nothing for today
I am such as I have never been before
and still
she is not enough
For to me all things
even dreams and death
are tangible
And such that I could touch
life and love alike
but the world spins in it's own way
I retrograde in my emotions
and there is no center
to loss and losing
My only comfort is this, you
and still I cling
knuckles white and bleeding
There is none and nothing to surround me
Still my body chokes
On air fouled with memories
And dreams
oh nightmares
that they would leave their scars and go
But the world and whims of life
are not as such
and such I should have known
Fools live and die
and I am still afraid
of life and death at once
The coffin of my mind is unburied
and such these memories renew
a soul tired in its journeying
This is now still
a day to remember
though many I still forget
For time passes like water
through this life
and on into the next
These scars I carry
though the weight not the same
still I feel its presence
Let me pass
just as I am
in the shadows of the overgrown
Into that which calls me
by my own name
in the dying light of the stars
This day is still only a rising
that will set into the past
and I will let you go
As I have done so many before
such is the way of the world
still she spins, in fields of flowers
Jul 4, 2018
Jul 4, 2018 at 12:05 AM UTC
I can go back years in my mind
and still
that changes nothing for today
I am such as I have never been before
and still
she is not enough
For to me all things
even dreams and death
are tangible
And such that I could touch
life and love alike
but the world spins in it's own way
I retrograde in my emotions
and there is no center
to loss and losing
My only comfort is this, you
and still I cling
knuckles white and bleeding
There is none and nothing to surround me
Still my body chokes
On air fouled with memories
And dreams
oh nightmares
that they would leave their scars and go
But the world and whims of life
are not as such
and such I should have known
Fools live and die
and I am still afraid
of life and death at once
The coffin of my mind is unburied
and such these memories renew
a soul tired in its journeying
This is now still
a day to remember
though many I still forget
For time passes like water
through this life
and on into the next
These scars I carry
though the weight not the same
still I feel its presence
Let me pass
just as I am
in the shadows of the overgrown
Into that which calls me
by my own name
in the dying light of the stars
This day is still only a rising
that will set into the past
and I will let you go
As I have done so many before
such is the way of the world
still she spins, in fields of flowers
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