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Dry Spell

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  I am immobilized by time.
by the idea that it is somehow slipping,
  fleeting,
        evaporating
              through the cracks of
      my fingers and high

             above my head.
  I am terrified by the incessant notion
that no combination of thoughts,
    words,
         silences,
              or actions
   could possibly satiate it.

I realize only now that it can never be filled:
     all which is tossed into it is swallowed in haste
              or stretched
                       so far
           that it dissolves into non-being.
 I find that I am caught within its furrows
much like the words it devours:
       swelling,
               ebbing,
                    suspending
   between its twisted arms
and I find myself aching
       to do so much at once
 that I end up doing
      nothing
   at all.
I've been rather consumed with the thought of time lately.
I don't like it at all.
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Ricardo-Orozco's avatar
time is so hard to understand.. this is a wonderful piece of art. amazing poem:)