Casey Stewart Poems

The problem is time,
Slip, slip, slipping away,
Gears spin, hands turn,
but I stand, trying to hold on
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I was a tin man,
Old, rusted and squeaking,
I refused to be so cold,
went out to find something,
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The sky is falling my friends,
Everything must come to its end,
A fork in the road,
Holding on longer will just
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Surrounded by people,
Yet all alone,
Wandering through the fog,
Silhouettes call to me,
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Have some restraint, control the emotion
Fixing this mind, will take time
Little lists and reminders only go so far
I must want to change, and now…
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Before a tree can take root in the soil,
A thousand drops of rain it must take in,
A thousand seconds of sunlight must soak it as a seed,
Before a boy can become a man, a thousand tasks must be completed
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Write it all down, everything that has ever happened,
Because our past is precious right?
Because we shouldn’t forget our roots,
So many crossing paths and mistakes made,
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Am I growing?
Do I learn at all?
These mistakes keep happening
I am a fool to think
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You listened to me burn your heart
You realized I’m not completely there
That part of my heart is elsewhere,
But I’m afraid you’ve learned to ignore
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Because I don’t want to know that you are going
And I’m sick of ignoring the problem of absence
I’ll miss you so much and that truth burns
So just let me be so I can prepare
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