Time
You stole my time long ago. Thousands of words stripped from my mouth because I chose silence. Hundreds of ideas taken from my mind. Silence. Missed opportunities. Again and again and again. Silence. Feeling of dread - years, months, weeks, days, hours in advance. In silence I gain fluency, And in silence I lose myself. Just a shadow, trying to keep up, trying to hide. I silence my time, and I silence my drive. I silence my thoughts, oh curious thoughts. I silence my world, as it continues to spin madly around me. When I silence myself, I silence others. My words are free, but my time is limited. So now I must, 28 years later, take back my time. Own my time. Embrace my time. My fuel is the ticking of the clock, tick tock, tick tock.