Sunday, September 30, 2012

Buy a Dolorian


They say that time will heal the wounds
But sadly I'm still missing you.
So I keep moving faster,
Hoping that time moves faster too.

I wish I could buy a Dolorian
And drive to a future where I'm with you.
I'd never go back:
This would just be a memory in the rear view.

But time has a mind of its own,
And instead of letting me leave,
It keeps dripping slowly and
The scars on my heart just won't heal.

The pain makes me want to jump
Off the Empire State building.
Flying through time to when
I had just met you and fallen.

As if time could be in a bottle,
I'd drink it up faster and faster;
Hoping time would disappear
But that only makes it go slower.

If I could meet an angel whose touch
Could zap away the pain,
Or if time could be rewritten
So that you would come back again.

Instead I'm stuck in the storm without you.
I'd fling myself around the sun
To bring our love
Out of extinction.

Maybe somewhere is a parallel universe
Where a version of you holds a version of me.
But I'm stuck in the void with a broken heart
And memories of a love that was not meant to be.

Though it seemed so right,
My time with you
Was never meant to be.
'Twas a wrinkle, a fluke.

In frustration, I'm punching the clocks
Like tenderized meat,
Hanging them out to dry
And making time melt on the trees.

So either I'll have to learn patience
And wait for the right time to come,
Or else I'll be growing daffodils
On my grave with their leaves in the sun.

1 comment:

  1. I wrote this poem over the dish-washing sink at KFC this summer. I really wanted to get that summer over with. In reality, it's written to UAB and all my friends there, but I tried to make it sound like it was written to a boy so that it would make more sense to someone who didn't know me.

    This, however, is not the best part...
    This poem is a game. Every verse except 1 and 3 are a reference to a tv show, movie, book, painting, or song. Each reference is related to time or time travel except one. Guess the references (no cheating if I've already told you).

    Go!! :)

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