I see your frozen face <br />As the sunlight dances across your lips <br />You turn to dust before my eyes <br />I don't hide you, nor try to stop it <br />Your fate has befallen you <br />As it will, someday, befall me <br />I watch as the breeze carries away your ashes <br />Into the skies, your remains seem to dance <br />I watch from the shadows, where I hide <br />I dodge the rays of light <br />As if they are a curse <br />When really, it is I who is the curse <br />I am a shadow of my former self <br />I no longer feel, I no longer see with eyes clouded by the lies of the world <br />I am a new bread <br />I see the truth, when everyone around me is being false <br />I know all and yet...I know nothing <br />As I walk in darkness, hidden from the light <br />I take in every detail of the world...as I see it. <br />Every curve in a rot iron fence <br />Every crack in a paved walkway <br />Every speck of dust, worn away by time <br />Time...the very thing I loathe <br />IT stops for no one, no one...except me <br />I am the enemy of time <br />It can't control me, therefore it has no power over me <br />I sometime wish it did... <br />I sometimes hope for its grasp to tighten one day <br />For its mind to breach my blockade <br />For that day. will be the day <br />That I breathe my last shallow breath <br />That will be the day <br />When the wind too, spreads my ashes over tha land <br />When my face <br />Will be nothing more, than a frozen face <br />On the canvas of time... <br /> <br />(2006)<br /><br />Lauren Harris<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/frozen-face/
