Time Bomb
I am strapped to a time bomb
The clock is broken, but the timer still goes
I can feel it with every beat against my heart
Sometimes it sparks, but it never ignites
Sometimes time stops, and I can breathe
But the clock always starts ticking again
Years:Days:Hours:Minutes:Seconds
Someone holds the controls but it’s not me.
They have pills these days
They tell me that maybe if I take this, the straps will loosen.
Maybe I can wiggle out
Maybe, just maybe, I can disarm the bomb that clings to my body
It never loosens that much, they just give me a new solution
Another loosening
But with every ‘solution’, the straps hold stronger
Sometimes I feel time stop, and sometimes I think I see sparks.
What I know, Is that there is this time bomb
It is strapped to my body
And it spends my days ticking away,
Oblivious of what it is doing to the world around me
The clock is broken, but the timer still goes
I can feel it with every beat against my heart
Sometimes it sparks, but it never ignites
Sometimes time stops, and I can breathe
But the clock always starts ticking again
Years:Days:Hours:Minutes:Seconds
Someone holds the controls but it’s not me.
They have pills these days
They tell me that maybe if I take this, the straps will loosen.
Maybe I can wiggle out
Maybe, just maybe, I can disarm the bomb that clings to my body
It never loosens that much, they just give me a new solution
Another loosening
But with every ‘solution’, the straps hold stronger
Sometimes I feel time stop, and sometimes I think I see sparks.
What I know, Is that there is this time bomb
It is strapped to my body
And it spends my days ticking away,
Oblivious of what it is doing to the world around me