Hourglass Insomnia

Lyrics

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean Paul

{Piano plinks and soprano voices}

Tick tock

The shadows are dancing

Tick Tock

The urn is shaking

Tick Tock

The eyes are peering

Tick Tock

Tick Tock

TICK TOCK

TICK TOCK

The mind is swirling

Everything is going

The clock is ticking

The wick is burning

Hands are sweating

There is a shallow breathing

The heart is racing

***

But yet everything is so quiet

Until a something brushes against your skin

The chill sends its nerving sins

Through you spine and up inside your mind vine

There is a tickling in your throat because you want to scream

The floor creaks

Then the thoughts leak

*

Although there is nothing to be afraid of

All alone

Stuck in a vortex of smothering reason

While reality ticks

And fantasy tocks

A smile pasted to your being

Because daydreams have become something realer than real

The music seeping into your eardrums

Drumming humming

Tunes in the inner looms

Of your senses

Your fingertips begins its rhythm

Tip tapping against the minutes

And before you know you are lost

Lost in a realm of purity

Where the haters are your slaves

And the abusers your workers

*

No need to race against time

For you are the time

You make the rules

Your destiny you create

Your room is nothing more than a faraway land

Your vision impaired

For the music put you in its spell

You no longer hear the clocks triggering vices

No longer hear the screams and shouts

No longer feel the cuts and bruises

No longer contain the emptiness in your soul

Your heart beats calmly

Because you are safe

Safe inside your insomnia hourglass

Where each tilt of its figure

Goes on forever and ever

And the asylum of ticks and tocks

Are forever lost

Lost, lost, lost

In a reality your are trying to forget

*

There is no pain

For you numbed it

You have become your own medication

For the time being

Although the side effects will settle in

And then you will hear . . .

*

The tick tock

Tick Tock

Tick Tock

Of shadows dancing

Your mind swirling

Phantom footsteps stepping

You will feel the ghostly whispers whispering

And the

Tick Tock

Tick Tock

Of life still going

But stay strong

Even if time stops for no one

Just pause for a minute

Forget the tick Tock

And Tock tick annoyance

Listen, listen

To the quietness behind it

In the quiet you will hear silent voices

Telling you that despite

Life’s cacophonies and failures

Those are just steeping stones to a better future

Your bruises, cuts and pain

No more but trophies of each war survived

No more tick tocks

While your dream unlocks

Inside your hourglass insomnia

Awaking illuminating

Strength in your inner

You never knew was there

*

{Whispers}

No more tick tocks

No more dark thoughts

No more small talk

Let peace in you walk

Let peace in you walk

Let peace In you walk

Let go let peace . . .

Author's Note

So I am just sitting here and the clock is ticking so loud. The room is lit with candles and everything is strange and quiet. . .