Time
Time
By Kevin Robey
April 7, 2013
When I was 19, where were you then?
I was in the dark, burning in the flames
Confused, lost in space, dead in a spin
Rolled the dice like my life was a game
I smoke, I drank, drove with it all in my brain
I wanted to crash, going nowhere way too fast
I never went to class, sliced open my veins
My lifeboat had sunk; I was sailing at half mast
I cried many nights alone with ink to paper
These never ending alibis disguised the see-through lies
My heart and soul dissipating in the vapor
Burned me through till the blue came out of my eyes
Colorless and alone, I felt confused and forsaken
You saved me now, but where were you then?
You were helpless like me, the gods mistaken
It’s like we were paying for past lives full of sin
You were 9, a child still with a gleam in your eye
In a prison you had just begun to understand
I couldn’t talk to you when you started to cry
Give you the power to rise and take a stand
You found solace in the world of make believe and art
Discovering digital souls that took you away from it all
People like you, under fire and severely confused
By a home that cut you down when you grew too tall
We journeyed together despite being a decade apart
Separated by time and space then, we are lucky now
Both children to worlds that gave us brand new hearts
Breaking all the rules the demons would never allow
We come to the present where you’re 19, and I’m 29
Veterans of frigid dark worlds that plagued our lives
We stand in the clearing with your hand holding mine
Feeling the same sun knowing that we both survived
You have to see you’re stronger than I ever could be
You made it here now, where we are finally together
You’ve waited in this clearing for a year to set me free
I’ve been waiting for 10 blinded by the foggy weather
Although the sunshine won’t illuminate the broken roads ahead
That will shake our foundation and test our unbreakable bond
I will never let you go, even if I’m holding onto a single thread
Instead, I will follow you into the darkness and further beyond
Let’s hope for now that the sunshine spreads its ardent love
And keeps the clouds from flooding and drowning our feet
We can stop the demons from forming the storms above
And find a place where our hearts can finally be complete
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