Time Is Gone
August 25, 2012 § 9 Comments
I know you’re sleeping
and I know I’m leaving.
I can hear your dreams
in the winds of your breathing.
It’s over, I know it’s done.
Forgive me; forgive me, if I run.
I know what I said
and I said I would stay.
I promised through the tears,
but I can’t — not this day…
Not any under moon or sun.
It’s over, I know it’s done.
Forgive me; forgive me when I run.
I know I’ve done it
so many times before,
but I’m so tired
of living beneath the floor.
I can’t be that memory,
the one you love and hate;
I can’t stay in mind
and sit — sit and wait…
Until your dreams are done.
Forgive me; forgive me that I run.
I’ve locked up my doors,
my number’s in the mail.
I can hear your hurt
in the silence you nail.
I gave you the years
I had left to give.
I spent the hours
waiting to live…
While you ached for none.
Forgive me; forgive me, if I run.
If you come looking,
close your eyes.
Don’t take in the darkness
of hope when it dies.
It’s over, I know it’s done.
Forgive me; forget me, when I run.
Sounds like you need some zombies in your life
I’m kidding. Love your work, maybe one day you would do me the honor of collaborating
Thank you, I appreciate it. I hear collaboration can be fun. Take care and be good to you.
A beautiful but gloomy poetry…..The passion is there. Very intense!
Thank you, I think. 😉
Time…what a gift, love your way with words! I guess the only thing that doesn’t change is “THIS MOMENT.”
Thank you so much, Jim.
Also, I wish you the best on your Thailand Adventure, as well as the endeavor for BIG Hearts Gang.
“I can’t be that memory,
the one you love and hate”—absolutely lovely…and the truth, when a relationship ends bitterly.
Thank you. I think a good deal of us have been in this particular state of mind. I used a lot of repetition to push through the idea of recurring sorrow in the relationship. The guilt of giving up is painfully present, so I imagined the thought, “I can’t be that memory, the one you love to hate” would drive home not merely the loss, but also the need to simply be loved in the relationship.