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turning time
If every minute was a day
then I have been laying here for years.
Mimicking the signs of sleep,
lulling myself with my cries.
I grew old in this time and now
I am feeble and grey
but no wiser than I was hours ago.
I can't bring my body to rise
from this inevitable tomb called my bed.
My casket of comfort.
So I am going to lay here.
I am going to lay here until I can't.
Until I am ash.
the only thing to remember me by
is the dried tearstains on my pillow.
all the time they spent trying to move me
now in their memories as i turned them away.
That'll fade soon.
like my ashes,
my memory will be wisked out the open window
beside my bed and into the dark yard
where I will be forgotten
and no one will bother to sweep me up.
then I have been laying here for years.
Mimicking the signs of sleep,
lulling myself with my cries.
I grew old in this time and now
I am feeble and grey
but no wiser than I was hours ago.
I can't bring my body to rise
from this inevitable tomb called my bed.
My casket of comfort.
So I am going to lay here.
I am going to lay here until I can't.
Until I am ash.
the only thing to remember me by
is the dried tearstains on my pillow.
all the time they spent trying to move me
now in their memories as i turned them away.
That'll fade soon.
like my ashes,
my memory will be wisked out the open window
beside my bed and into the dark yard
where I will be forgotten
and no one will bother to sweep me up.
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