Time

The days I wished to always remember

Are the days I wish I could forget.

And the memories that bring smiles,

I wish they weren't made.

The days I wished that would never end

Are the days I wish I never lived.

And the hours spent on the memories,

I wish were mine again.

 

Time is death.

From the minute I smile,

To the minute I cry.

One second so happy,

The next so sad.

The future is now part of the past,

And the past is my prison.

I am held captive,

The only escape is to neglect,

But forgetting takes time,

And time takes life away.

 

Everything seems out of place,

When I feel I don’t belong.

The harder I try to find my place again,

The more I get lost.

The more I search,

The more time I waste.

And the more time I lose,

The less time I live.

 

 

In my life,

There is only darkness and time.

In my life,

Nothing ever seems to rhyme.

Reviews

[dark and twisty]

oh goodness, it's as if i stumbled upon my own mind and emotions epitomized in this sad, sad poem...here i am feeling exactly as you described, not knowing how to put it to words, and i come across this poem and there it is, in words i would never have found saying absolutely perfectly how i felt..amazing....

sometimes life does take your breathe away doesn't it? even in the darkness...in the smallest most intangible ways, in poetry written by perfect strangers that describes EXACTLY how you feel, making you feel less alone at least for a while, for this moment..