Life flowed on like the chattering river I was used to
Images of past moments, pale, and the mind pale and light.
Heavy breaths and beating hearts seldom came into play
Being free with ordinariness, quiet petals flowing along.
Then the messenger brought me the change I could never swallow
Of time, of personality, of thought altogether.
Standing still as before I was, yet my universe somehow altered.
Tears defied the strangling steel talons of disapproval
Yet the future kept darkening, forgetting its old self.
Yet now, lying in this inevitable future, no tears blotching my face,
Its the past which lies forgotten, hidden in dark, invisible chambers.
Laughing and crying as the good times evade temptation,
My hands run across the demolished walls of happy memories
And find nothing but the present, as unbelievable as the truth.
Images of past moments, pale, and the mind pale and light.
Heavy breaths and beating hearts seldom came into play
Being free with ordinariness, quiet petals flowing along.
Then the messenger brought me the change I could never swallow
Of time, of personality, of thought altogether.
Standing still as before I was, yet my universe somehow altered.
Tears defied the strangling steel talons of disapproval
Yet the future kept darkening, forgetting its old self.
Yet now, lying in this inevitable future, no tears blotching my face,
Its the past which lies forgotten, hidden in dark, invisible chambers.
Laughing and crying as the good times evade temptation,
My hands run across the demolished walls of happy memories
And find nothing but the present, as unbelievable as the truth.
