A grain of sand falls

To be surrounded by glass walls

In a secret force of time and space

Where all else stops and I can see your face.

They're rising high

The sands of time

And I'm being boxed in

Where the line of breathing room is thin

I press my hands to the top

But the pushing won't stop

The pressure builds and the longing burns

You're slipping away as the table turns.

Now suffocating in darkness, the mess I made

I think of what could've been had you just stayed

As regret surrounds

I make no sounds.

Succumbing to the mistakes I've made

The last of me begins to fade

I'm a captor to time despite my trying

To reach back through the years and stop my crying.

I'm trapped now in this hourglass filled to the brim

And I realize living in the past is nothing but grim

Can't force my way out I'm too far in

So I'll finish what I started, "let the games begin…"

I've failed you my love for there are no winners in a losing game

So broken and defeated I'm devoured in shame.

But through it all, the lies the treason,

I found a moral, "things happen for a reason…"

And now, long after years pass

I'm outside looking into my mind's eye hourglass