You slip away from me like sweat soaked hand slips away from a metal bar.
Unrelenting, having to break away and wipe before trying to reconnect.
But I fear that before I can reach back out to you I'll fall. And you'll stay where you've always been.
I'll be memorialized as a photo on your wall. Caked in dust and yellowing at the edges.
Taken down when my frayed image no longer matches your pristine white walls.
I can only hope you'll store me in a box instead of fire,
if only so I could last a little longer,
like a loose thread clinging to your shirt.
Hoping to go unnoticed so you can pull me along.
Yet if you let go I wont hold on.
You hold the key to chains that bind you, and I would never stay to weigh you down.
So please let me go gently if you can.
Lay me in the grass before you renovate the terrain,
build cities up top and forget me slowly.
It is the only mercy I wish for.
Nov 21, 2025
Nov 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM UTC
You slip away from me like sweat soaked hand slips away from a metal bar.
Unrelenting, having to break away and wipe before trying to reconnect.
But I fear that before I can reach back out to you I'll fall. And you'll stay where you've always been.
I'll be memorialized as a photo on your wall. Caked in dust and yellowing at the edges.
Taken down when my frayed image no longer matches your pristine white walls.
I can only hope you'll store me in a box instead of fire,
if only so I could last a little longer,
like a loose thread clinging to your shirt.
Hoping to go unnoticed so you can pull me along.
Yet if you let go I wont hold on.
You hold the key to chains that bind you, and I would never stay to weigh you down.
So please let me go gently if you can.
Lay me in the grass before you renovate the terrain,
build cities up top and forget me slowly.
It is the only mercy I wish for.
A fear of breaking apart, and yet the dread of staying together.