now is the instant
i can feel it even though i don’t know why;
and i’m
one minute off the hour.
i run on
intuition alone, this time,
and it works, thank god,
because i’ve
lost my feet in the fall.
somehow i end up on the sidewalk
in pieces
held together by cheap twine & the fact that my mind is
sedated.
to the sky with my arms
stretched
losing touch with my fingers & letting
my hands crawl away.
to get lost in the clouds
would be to say i was found in the first place;
i thought i was, once,
but i was mistaken.
taken backwards through time i’d blame clock hands if i hadn’t
noticed the new lines by my eyes &
those on your forehead.
there’s a lot here, to tell,
but why waste these moments on words when
the sky can say it all;
i watch the dusk turn grey & get washed away
& for the first time in a long while
i can breathe.
quiet is my world
getting
stuck
used up
and left behind.
i’ve finally learned
how to stop time,
but with it
goes
everything else.
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