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Seconds
Here and gone
Lost so fast
Off and on
So quickly, present turns to past
Seconds
They fade
Seconds
They’ve never stayed
Here and there
It runs away
No room for air
The past, a gloomy gray
Here, the past will always live
Never forgive
The memories, the lies
Tearful goodbyes
No one sees it
They fear to relive it
Want to forget it
Can’t release it
Seconds
They fade
Seconds
They’ve never stayed
No one knows
How many actually care?
Where the past goes
The knowledge is more then they can bear
No one knows
Why should they try?
To figure out why there are no arrows
That point back to all the lies
One second is precious
The next is horrid
Some moments left you breathless
Some you simply hated
Seconds
They fade
Seconds
They’ve never stayed
One second fades away
And another replaces it
But it, too, quickly passes away
And a new one is lit
One second, one life
As fragile as a dove
The past like a knife
Always lingering above
People move on
They try to forget
Because they wish it were gone
The past becomes a threat
Seconds
They fade
Seconds
They’ve never stayed
People dream
Some wish they didn’t
They smile when they want to scream
Never forgetting dreadful moments
People wish time would work quicker
Though some wish it would stay
Some make their wish obey
Opening a bottle of liquor
Time comes, time goes
The burning flame of life moves with it
As the wind blows
It keeps moving forward, as long as the flame remains lit
Seconds
They fade
Seconds
They’ve never stayed
Time takes prisoners
And never lets them go
We are time’s captures
Unable to say no
Time keeps on going
But we can’t keep up
Time keeps growing
But we can’t back up
Seconds
They fade
Seconds
They’ve never stayed
The future is always changing its shape
The present always leaves but the past we can never escape
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