Once more
Against the day
Always and forever
Raging against the clock
Before
It stops
Once more
Against the night
Where we turn fears into dreams
And hope for the best
As the body decays
We look for the time to rest
Once more
Against the mind
The real enemy of time
It's a trick by a sick prick
That face in the mirror
Staring back
As the glass cracks
Running down the middle of tortured eyes
Once more
Against the hard lines
Where smiles used to be
Now
Upside down
Stuck
In a permanent frown
What goes up
Must come down
Once more
Through the traffic
Alone on this planet
Surrounded by strangers
Who don’t stop for the man
They can’t understand
Once more
Into the shower
Where sometimes I’ll sit under the water
For an hour
Washing myself clean
There’s so much dirt under these fingernails
Once more
Looking into the eyes of another
A sister or a brother
And I see it
The same feelings
But they bare it
With a chin up
And a right-side up frown
She is me and I am her
And if she can do it
Surely I can too
After all
You are me
And
I am you.
-C.H.