Paths

Written from 12-10-11 to 12-19-11

Step by step
Day by night
Straight downhill
On pavement

Just cracked pavement
Streetlights blow out
One by one
Some shatter in the case

Others just go out
But still don't shine bright
Dark and open space
With turns left and right

With every step
Something from behind fades
But the option to turn back
Is nonexistent

In an effort to keep moving forward
Falling to the ground
Tears falling
Trying to forget the past

One look behind
Nothing is seen
Everything there
Is now gone

Turning forward again
Moving further into the dark
Becoming apart of the scene
Making this the present

Continuing to go ahead
Every single step forward
Is the reminder to forget
And making the past more painful

The present has now become the past
The past being gone
The future unknown and dark
Standing discontinues the process

Erasing and creating
Pointless
At a standstill
Past, Present, Future

Having a whole timeline
At one single point
Creates time to flow
And brings back thoughts

Memories of the past
Thoughts of the future
The present, though
Has nothing

The present has nothing to create
Nothing in motion
Nothing is nothing
Everything is nothing

If to take one step forward
Time will race
And crack
And all will be gone

One step back
Will pull every strand apart
From the nonexistent present and future
And nothing, even nothing, will ever exist

So now trapped
In one nonexistent moment
Nothing to say
Nowhere to go

One more look over
To see that darkness is
Darkness was and darkness will be
The time, or no time, for the rest of all