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
