Suffocating, foaming, festering
memories purr at me
Taunting me
haunting me
with each move onward
the fading of breath
gasping
Begging, screaming, pleading
To inhale
Yet chained
My captor, Time takes pleasure in tears
Laps them up in a crystallized glass
Sipping on the past
He dances on the pounding of my chest
playing recklessly in step
Pattering with delicate sadism
He licks at my throat
toying with me,
Making game of me,
fuming his breath
in whispering tendrils
In memorial of my air.
I claw at my neck
Slashes of trial
Ripping of cords
Time holds me
While life sits on the edge
Watching in fascination
Seeing from afar
Life watches
Sits on the edge
Time teaches me
Punishes me
Time knows he’ll win
Life knows I’ll lose
Death a late guest
Flashes lightly before my eyes
Time whispers its last lesson
breathe the fog
sip the poison
sit with us
learn to love absence of breath
Life applauds
Death bows
Time sips as the rich aromas
prance his lungs in a finale
That begs no encore
Oct 26, 2025
Oct 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM UTC
Suffocating, foaming, festering
memories purr at me
Taunting me
haunting me
with each move onward
the fading of breath
gasping
Begging, screaming, pleading
To inhale
Yet chained
My captor, Time takes pleasure in tears
Laps them up in a crystallized glass
Sipping on the past
He dances on the pounding of my chest
playing recklessly in step
Pattering with delicate sadism
He licks at my throat
toying with me,
Making game of me,
fuming his breath
in whispering tendrils
In memorial of my air.
I claw at my neck
Slashes of trial
Ripping of cords
Time holds me
While life sits on the edge
Watching in fascination
Seeing from afar
Life watches
Sits on the edge
Time teaches me
Punishes me
Time knows he’ll win
Life knows I’ll lose
Death a late guest
Flashes lightly before my eyes
Time whispers its last lesson
breathe the fog
sip the poison
sit with us
learn to love absence of breath
Life applauds
Death bows
Time sips as the rich aromas
prance his lungs in a finale
That begs no encore
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