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Time doesn’t wait, it’s already gone, I blink, too slow, and it’s moved on.
It rushes ahead, I stay back here, Half in the now, half somewhere unclear.
Memories replay, again, again, again. A flicker, a sound, I’m back there and then.
A door. A breath. A voice too fast, The present distorts, I’m left in the past.
I open my eyes more time has slipped, A second lost from a loosened grip.
Yet I’m still there, where i can’t let go, In a moment that never learned to slow.
I don’t want this I don’t want to feel, But it lives in my body, sharp and real.
“Time, come back,” i say far too late, It doesn’t turn, doesn’t hesitate.
I reach, I miss-something doesn’t align, I’m a step out of place in a fractured line.
It keeps going, gone, out of my grasp, But I’m still here, still stuck in the past.