Cotton Candy Skies Eat Time Alive
Levels
Devils
Shovels
Muzzles
Puzzles
Heard words
Red ones
Blue ones
Read ones
True ones
Bad ones
Lies
Staying high
Staying blind
Life
Right and wrong
Meaning and believing
Achieving and seeing
Conceiving and creating
Sleeping and shaving
Misbehaving
Taming
My wild child
With the rules
From the ruler's
"Shoes on feet"
"Speak on beat"
"Take the heat"
The talk is cheap
The talk is cheap
They want to get it for free
Feasting on me
Feasting on me
Red words
Read words
Dead words
Only useful when used
Only heard when abused
Cheese in the maze
Locked in the house for day’s
Staring at screens
Stuck in a daze
Lost in a daydream
Minutes, hours, days pass
What it meant
Doesn’t seem to mean anything today
Today
Today
Is a new play
With the same actors on the stage
What was meaningful yesterday
Faded away
And I am asked again
To find a way
And a reason why
To try
Again and again
Asked . . . again
The sun comes up
And cotton candy skies
Eat time alive
As it reaches a peak
The brightest star in our sky
Then,
It falls
Like things do
After they’ve hit their peaks
And she
Descends
Down
To earth
And the cotton candy skies
Eat time alive
Again
And it all repeats
Ends and begins
Every 86,400 seconds
It all ends and begins.
-C.H.