The speedometer read zero for the longest time
All things stood still in your eyes and in mine
Our hearts stitched together, just beating
Our chests pressed tight together, both of us just breathing
This love seemed timeless, until you unlocked
I heard the dreaded "tik tok, tik tok"
And you began to drift
While I remained, devastated by the rift
One mile per hour, two, ten
The world creaks and groans as it starts up again
I stand floating in a timeless void
Split in half and utterly destroyed
I cry and I kick, the tantrum of a child
Slowly become an animal, feral and wild
There is no more dancing, there is no more twirl
Just the death of the poet who stopped the world
Without the muse, there is no more starlight
Another wall to break me down, knock me out of the fight
I lay on the floor, rooted like a tree
As the world moves again without me.
May 6, 2014
May 6, 2014 at 8:31 PM UTC
The speedometer read zero for the longest time
All things stood still in your eyes and in mine
Our hearts stitched together, just beating
Our chests pressed tight together, both of us just breathing
This love seemed timeless, until you unlocked
I heard the dreaded "tik tok, tik tok"
And you began to drift
While I remained, devastated by the rift
One mile per hour, two, ten
The world creaks and groans as it starts up again
I stand floating in a timeless void
Split in half and utterly destroyed
I cry and I kick, the tantrum of a child
Slowly become an animal, feral and wild
There is no more dancing, there is no more twirl
Just the death of the poet who stopped the world
Without the muse, there is no more starlight
Another wall to break me down, knock me out of the fight
I lay on the floor, rooted like a tree
As the world moves again without me.
4/20/2012, 18
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