My heart is frozen in yesterday

As my body advances to tomorrow

My legs walk

My mouth talks

Blood courses through my veins

Giving the illusion of living

Numbness is all I feel

In my being wrenched with pain

The remembrance of love

Bittersweet upon my lips

Cobwebs sparkle in the dew

An unseen world just out of sight

Birds flying overhead

A feather drifts silently to the ground

Trees sway in the breeze

Leaves fall lazily to the ground

I watch from my window

Hugging the warmth

Autumn sky filled with cool crisp air

Casts shadows on my heart

Saddness settles in the valley

As the green tarnishes to a golden brown

The sun sends mute rays

Hidden in the long nights

The moon illuminates the dense mist

Smoke spirals upward

Choaking the air

With its gray fingers

I hug the warmth closer

A blanket of serenity covers my soul

I hold on to the memories

That flood the night with you

BZ

Numbered from the beginning

Days pass oblivious of time

Death seeps in daily

Filling the pores of my being

Unheard, not felt as it creeps in

Wading through life's blood

Everyday leaving footprints

Claiming tiny pieces

Unnoticed changes

Left behind by the Phantom

Echos of ancient songs

Forgotten but for vague memories

Drift on the smoke of ancestral fires

Innocence curls upwards to the sky

Leaving impending reality

Cold on the withering vines smitten by the frost

The stones are sharp

The wind is harsh

Life flows in my veins

Hope mingled with despair

From the dark morning emerges

Come life, come hope, come love

BZ

Seasons, days, nights, seconds, minutes, hours

Markers of our time here

Each unique

Though familiar

Propelled into tomorrow

The unknown

Unfolding

In sequence

But always new

Waiting just out of reach

A fleeting grasp

As the sand slips through the hourglass

Unable to hold on to this now

Forever going into the infinite nows to come

Traveling alone

Traveling together

The journey

Always ends in now

BZ