Clock
So fucking lonely all the time.
I only want to be near you, hear you, see you.
But you’re so far away all the time, in every way.
And every time we speak,
you say something new,
and the anger bubbles up,
but I can’t be mad at you.
I don’t have time to be mad at you
because the timer’s already started,
and it’s ticking too quickly
for me to keep up and I’m scared we’re running out of time.
The ticking drives me crazy,
always there at the back of my head:
counting the days till I see you,
counting the days till I see you after,
counting the days that matter to you.
And the clock keeps swallowing me,
one tick at a time.
Yet weirdly,
I hope you face this madness too.
I think maybe I’ve started measuring my life
in the distance between us.
But I think
I wanna live too.