they never let me forget.
Everyone wants to fall in love with a poet
until it actually happens.
Time is our goddamn deity,
and we delay its prayers by caring about passersby.
This life will end,
bet gold.
hope fully,
a new same one will begin.
draw and quarter me
with the hands of your watch.
Always anxious
even as envy takes us.
Blunt force trauma
to the heart.
It’s a condition
from the start.
One day hear,
the next there.
Today is already
tomorrow’s yesterday.
I never want to know
what’s next.
The Ouroboros loop
will lead me back to you.
There's nothing I can do about the choices I've made,
because that's how I got to hear today.
until it actually happens.
Time is our goddamn deity,
and we delay its prayers by caring about passersby.
This life will end,
bet gold.
hope fully,
a new same one will begin.
draw and quarter me
with the hands of your watch.
Always anxious
even as envy takes us.
Blunt force trauma
to the heart.
It’s a condition
from the start.
One day hear,
the next there.
Today is already
tomorrow’s yesterday.
I never want to know
what’s next.
The Ouroboros loop
will lead me back to you.
There's nothing I can do about the choices I've made,
because that's how I got to hear today.