Clockwork

Red digits blur

Room bends sideways

Shadows stretch

Names fall off the days

Missed my stop

Ride kept folding on itself

Same gray face

In every window

Someone else

Heartbeat cold

Hands stuck halfway to your mouth

Every second helps

Slip me back out

I lost the clock

But not the cost

I lost the map

The roads still cross

Time runs thin

Cuts like wire

I’m drifting out

Of place and fire

I set my watch to your cold breath

You disappeared

The hours left

I lost the clock

I lost the clock

Now every moment

Feels wrong

Feels wrong

Streetlights pulse

Stutter like a failing heart

Sidewalk breaks

Looping where it used to start

Calendar

Filled with daze I never know

All these versions of

Walking where I shouldn’t go

Count it in

One

Two

One

Two

Three

Five

Eight

Beat skips

Floor splits

Can’t sync up the weight

Space is gone

I’m groundless

Teeth in the gears turn soundless

History glitches

Frames erased

All my memories leave a taste

Fold me

Corner of the photograph

Edge of a quiet laugh

Soul that I used to have

Hold me

At the border of your skin

Where the minutes can’t begin

Where the end is wearing thin

If this is all that we can keep

Let it be this everlasting sleep