The promise of potential
Lives yet unlived
Spread out like a canvas before us
Ready to be filled in
Oh, the innocence of youth
Optimism in inexperience
Not knowing what’s ahead
But ready for it anyway
Face it all as it comes
With sureness and dedication
Built upon inexperience
Having never been told no
Time to work the tapestry
Without tools or knowledge
But with a focus born of vision
Those dreams will guide us home
The clock strikes the end
glass shatters, pins drop,
and nothing moves
Hearts still beat
and lungs still pump
but breath hangs in the air
Nothing left to feel
in that moment
down to the very second
that everything changed
What you thought you knew
isn’t anyone’s truth
at least not anymore
That instant
when it’s all over
that crystal clarity
that catches and holds you
gripped so tight
yet you still fall
And the moment ends
and you carry on
as all starts up again
Hearts still beat
lungs still pump
so take the breath
and move on
There’s a magic in the language
That always seems just out of reach
I wield these words as weapons
Sharp and swift and yet they fall so easily
Dropped in surrender to the trutb
There’s nothing left to say
And it’s all over now
Long before it ever really started
I could try to win the day
But there’s no battle to be won
Nothing to fight for
And the message holds no grand secrets
Just the frail and failing ramblings
Desperation come to life
Grasping at the fantasy
I strain to feel that magic
I’ve believed in for so long
Only to find its absence
A haunting presence in the place
Of the warmth and security
That I was fighting for
Such a beautiful disaster
Something to live for
But not to to build upon
Unsteady foundations
Stand firm on illusions
Let them carry the weight
Until the truth shines through
And casts out the shadows
That you built upon