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`` A Letter to Time ``

Dear Time,

You remind me of the Sea. Unable to be restrained. Unable to be controlled. Unable to be contained. You are merciless, yet your movement is necessary. You steal away our precious moments before we are ready to let go, just as the rising tides carry away the forgotten toys of young children. But in the moments that we need to escape, to move, you are calm, gentle, and slow. When we are like a sailboat in a windless sea, you choose to quiet.

I understand though, Time, that you might wish to slow down just as much as I wish you would. The Moon controls the tides, so tell me, who controls you, Time? Perhaps we are the ones that make things seem too fast, or perhaps it has always been like this. Perhaps you wish you could slow down the good moments, cradle us in your arms, and tell us you'll make it last as long as we'd like.

Perhaps we are your children, Time, and it pains you that we think you cause our suffering.

With all the love and forgiveness in the world,

a young human

when I was pulled under the waves

my eyes stung

it felt like when the shampoo drips in the shower

my mouth got salty

it felt like when I get fries from the place I hate

my body dragged

then rolled

it felt like nothing

nothing good

nothing bad

there's nothing under there

tell me how am i supposed to move on when you keep a showing in my dreams every night; you stand before a beautiful scenery but before my arms reach you reach you, blood starts trailing down the waterfall over the mountains and the sky turns the deepest colour of the vine   my father likes to drink. you turn into a rotten corpse trying to choke me to death. then i wake up.out of breath, drenched in sweat. i collect my sheets and hold  them tight under my feet. wrap my blanket over my head. hug my knees to my chest. i keep shaking until the sun comes out; even the thought of sleep has haunts me now. so do the memories of you, carved upon my spines where my arms do not reach.

i have nothing to talk about

Nothing to say’s so important that it’ll keep the world running

like an HVAC whirring and compressing

Like motors like steel like the factory of fame and dreams

on planet Mercury

in the clouds

through this message I hope that the show keeps on going

help me up the stairs, but

there’s no sky that’s worth living in

-s’s.

you look so tired,

lampshade, on fire

calmly, talking,

inanimate objects

I felt, much better

off alone in the tower

As I am,

I see through a golden space

I'm trapped in amber sap,

Onto the outside I look

Within the inside I am firm

Fossilized, undiscerned

-s's.

today I am mourning for what's yet to come, deep in the afterparty of death

Black, tarred, the walls eat everything up

grim appetite for the full dark night

-s's.

everything I catch

is a relic of my past

leaving things alone

until they rot and turn to stone;

in another memory they'll go

-s's.

I take advantage of this illusion

If it is so

I’ll take apart my delusions

That once buried me into where I lay

And now I sing everyday

so be it.

-s's.

And so many years of life instilled,

propped up for me to tell you that I will

Leave this dream again

-s's.

why do I never admit what I will someday? make a lie for myself in a horrible way and I wouldn't like to watch you come tumbling too with some bleak misfortune, staring in silent rooms

-s's.

The slightest changes are inevitable 

they dont hurt as much as anyone else would 

& The slightest changes are surreal

Once they’re here, once they’re here

-s’s.

Lifeline

I never really thought I'd wake to these mornings

be my lifeline, as I begin to draw it

whatever song feels good to me,

a psychopathic symphony

and whatever I see, I'll believe,

my photographic memory

-s's.

tired of noticing the hills, gold over the fields,

I’m tired of noticing that, and all that's real,

your distant breeze, and every little thing

I've been noticing, every little thing, but no one else ever will

they won’t try to, they never will

-s’s.

why resist the fire of you when it shines on me too

-s’s.

Mess of Mansion

I'll live life, and I'll leave it

I'll leave it on the floor

I'll break the door open

and make the rooms flood

I'll live and I'll leave

I'll leave it all alone

like when the day is done,

I'll shake the windowpane

I'll leave it on the road

because in this lifetime,

there is a broken home

to this mess of a mansion,

I wish I'd never come.

-s's.

lampshade July,

lampshade hangs just to remind

Me of days that passed and died

and not one mention of you

ever did survive,

Tragic end or precious guilt,

Whatever wills.

-s’s.

when you go, you’re nowhere,

Listening to rock,

singing as you fall,

Erasing who you are

listen

gently while the witness

Bears of what it saw;

a soul ascend at dawn

-s’s.

I saw me from behind

watching you on, but from afar

I wouldn't have known, If I should choose to go

Someone make my mind up for me,

Somehow.

-s's.

sun dust spinning around us

an ache I used to feel, once

just cause it got the best of me don’t mean I’ll keep on thinking it through

Or let myself sit any longer in this abandoned room

-s’s.

if my thoughts had hands they would strangle me,

Tightly, entangling, but not before they reach for you and you would be the first thing they’d hold onto

-s’s.

Living in the dark ages

I know you love dark ages I know we got nowhere

History’s lost stories

Crying on the torn pages

I know you love to write it there

Something makes them so fragrant

I love them, but I’m scared

-s’s.

day, be my night,

letting me see nothing else,

except for the moon's empire

created out of star death

-s's.

carry me to the test

you have a dragon fire breath

you, with the light

and it shone through just in time

-s's.

History

you haunt every memory

you haunt all of my thoughts

you tear each and every page of our story

and leave me in the dark

-s's.