The Road To Forgiveness

Time Stops Ticking

Time stops ticking, the clock runs backwards

Your head spins as the mirror distorts

You hear a child scream into the cold night air

Then realize it's your own, mangled of sorts

A bird tweets, caws, then melts like wax

The heart beats once and caves in to a small box

You hear a metal ringing in your ears, 

Turns your skin inside out, with a key and locks

Time stops ticking, seconds are chopped off

With a knife that could puncture diamond

The strongest, the weakest, a shot in the dark

As the waves drown you on your unsinkable island

It shakes the dust, a tornado in your eyes

Blinding you from the reality dripping off the canvas

Paint drops off steadily into the pool of colours below

You see your reflection, until it spins on an axis

Time stops ticking, and the clock runs on empty

You chug to an end on your promising road

The sculpture you built with your hands scraped to bone

Has turned to tears, grains that erode

Dying slowly, forever pain, a world of crime

The life you had once was never what you knew

Because you're dangling from a rope ten feet from the floor

And endless time becomes the ghost haunting you