Sands of Time

This photo represents the feeling and emotion behind the poem. It demonstrates losing yourself to the darkness, and trying to find a way out.

This photo represents the feeling and emotion behind the poem. It demonstrates losing yourself to the darkness, and trying to find a way out.

Lany Campbell, Staff Writer

By pouring their derision upon anything we did

And exposing every weakness

I got a strong urge to fly

 

Does anyone else in here feel the way I do?

Wrong! Do it again!

 

There must be some mistake

I didn’t mean to let them take my soul

 

I feel like I’m drowning

I can’t show my weakness

I feel like I can’t breathe

 

Things are not what they seem

A certain look in the eye, and an easy smile

 

No more than alive

No one has a real friend

 

I wear its darkness with an empty smile

You don’t even hear when I think aloud

 

This bleeding heart’s not bleeding much, and I make promises I cannot keep

 

Reality fades like shadows into the night

Love turns like the skin of a dying man

 

We pretend it’s alright

Grown colder

 

I feel cold as a razor blade

Dry as a funeral drum

Don’t look so frightened

It’s just one of my bad days

 

Do you want to contemplate the silent freeway?

Would you like to learn to fly?

Would you like to see me try?

Why are you running away?

 

How could you go when you know I need you?

How can you treat me this way?

 

Is something eluding you, sunshine?

Is it not what you expected to see?

Wanna find out what is behind these cold eyes?

 

Tear-stained eyes

Empty smile

Guilty past

Nerves in tatters keep your dirty feelings inside

 

Staying home to watch the rain

Shorter of breath

One day closer to death

Hanging cold and tired

 

Tolling of the iron bell

Dwindling smiles

Bury the light

 

Don’t give in

Without a fight

 

Waiting for someone to call out

Open your heart

For you could not break free

 

Always doing what you’re told

Don’t tell me there’s no hope at all

 

This is not who I am

Is it just a waste of time?

All of your nightmares come true

She’s dangerous

Break my heart

The flames are all gone, but the pain lingers on

 

I’m leaving you today

There’s nothing you can say to make me change my mind.