Can you feel alone

Even in the middle of a crowd?

I can, I was

Forms bumping against my own

Despising ghosts passing me by

Fake importance in every gesture

Can you feel alone

Even among your own?

I can, I was

Blood may be ticker than water

But just as fray as silk

Parting tides with a careless gesture

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And I stood still

Watching silently

As the clock ticked

Time passed

My only acknowledger

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Can you be heard

If you call for a friend’s name?

I can’t, I tried

Shifting moods weakening ties

Elusive faith kept in them

Failing strength in an earnest moment

Can you be heard

If you mutter a pained prayer?

I can’t, I tried

Whispers may be softer than zephyr

But just as loud as screams

Though neglectful ears remain deaf to all

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And I walked quietly

Seeing with anguish

As the clock ticked

Time went by

My only companion

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How I wish I could be like them

A mere follower

Ignore all I see

Live my life like they do

Be just as unsighted as they are

Just as ignorant

How I wish I could lower my eyes

Allow myself to be guided

By narrowed minds,

Hands with too much power,

Blind heart to the truth.

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It would be so much easier

If I could only bow my head

Silence these thoughts

Numb this knowledge

But I cannot

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Maybe that was my mistake

Understanding that lasting isn’t living

Learning that too soon in life

Refusing that path drawn for me

Always taking the harder choice

But life I hoped to receive was denied

And my reward was indifference,

To last without a future.

To have one single fate.

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Lonely clock ticks

Unforgiving time

My companion of all breaths

Are you finally coming?

My faithful friend

The one that never left me

My unmerciful guardian

Will you cut this line at last?

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Sight fades lazily

Skin losing remaining warmth

A life’s cadence slipping away

As a dead heart finally falls silent

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But the clock ticks unbothered

Time keeps passing

Abandoning me behind

As I can no longer follow

Forgotten ripple in an ocean’s immensity

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Because we are all the same

Lonely individuals

Walking by ourselves

But only some see this,

Raise their heads to the bitter truth.

Fortunate those who ignore that light

And last for all eternity

Being reborn again and again

Ignorant creatures

Not missing a light ever witnessed

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Beloved time, I was a small flame

One no one saw or cared to see

One that tried to be more,

Own a bit of humanity inside

But flames die, ripples vanish…

Soon enough I’ll be no more

Erased in the mist of infinity

But the clock keeps ticking

You keep passing

Indifferent watcher

Eternal betrayer

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