Poetry

Hourglass

Life is like an hourglass,
It can run out at any moment,
You only have so long before it's all gone,

It's almost like it was never there,
All the bad things that happen,
They take that time away from us,

We scream and blame everyone,
But for some reason,
Some of the stuff that happens is our fault,

We've asked for it,
Or that's what we're told,
And we believed every word,

I blame myself,
After everything,
I still believe that it was my fault,

I feel myself fading from this world,
And when that last grain of sand falls,
That will be the last time that I ever let a piece of me fall with you.
                                                                     ~Alexis Colyer