Let Go, It’s Time

My hands scrape the cold ground
Digging for the final exhale
Which to shake the Earth
Punish time
Take this down
Absolve us
Of all this we've
Become

Let go
Of the benign
Indifference
You hold in your mouth
We are ghosts
In this place
With nothing
To haunt
Our time punished
Through broken lens
Without understanding

We all let go
Sometimes
Or try to
Attempted facade
A slow dance
Running from dreams
A lethargic assault
Tumbling over
The broken
And reckless
Until the time
We are caught
In stillness
In understanding
In difference

Now, what do you see
Nothing
I caress your cheek
Explore your eyes
We really don't know
Do we