Until We Have Reached Time
Kailyn Neidetcher

There are only days left,
I mean hours,
No, I mean seconds,
There are only seconds left,
And the time that ticks in between,
In between the rationalizations
That the power of our seconds,
Is much greater than our hands and minds,
Because seconds from now even this will be gone,
The words that I have written
Are the recordings of Time,
Because he told me so horrendously,
That he has the power to move much faster than we will ever find,
So I make sure not to find my eyes on palms and keep my heart to beating slow when Time creeps closer
Because the moments I was wasting could have been possibilities of smiles,
Smiles, that start running down my face but only Time can melt my mouth in with my skin,
And my skin melts deeper in my bones, and even they will remember perfection,
But perfection will not be nor has it ever,
Because it is the image in our heads,
Because our heads are dreaming,
And even the Greatest dreamt,
And even the Greatest met their second,
But the Greatest created the lines that we listen to so they are whispering into the worlds,
And with no jealousy let us realize that they are immortal,
Because the same people are a part of this time to take you and provide,
Just like Time has given to you,
And even the Greatest warned us that this is all there is,
But we move slow and learn fast with the many seconds time spares us,
We learn from the moments that take us in,
Inch by inch,
Deeper and deeper,
Until we find ourselves hoping they wrote about us down on paper,
Because we’re finding ourselves stroking our slowly beating hearts,
Until we have reached Time,
And our last second.