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slowness
I am
slow. I lag
behind.
Others swim like fish through time,
but I drown.
I become lost, floating through a sea where time stands still.
From outside I perform the motions, but not quickly enough.
It’s like sand falling through my fingers.
I know my plight should be more urgent, like the ringing of an alarm bell,
but what alarm could wake me in this state?
Sand
sifts through my fingers,
soft and hypnotic.
It falls through an hourglass that never
empties
or
fills.
© katiewrites
slow. I lag
behind.
Others swim like fish through time,
but I drown.
I become lost, floating through a sea where time stands still.
From outside I perform the motions, but not quickly enough.
It’s like sand falling through my fingers.
I know my plight should be more urgent, like the ringing of an alarm bell,
but what alarm could wake me in this state?
Sand
sifts through my fingers,
soft and hypnotic.
It falls through an hourglass that never
empties
or
fills.
© katiewrites
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