Loud noises fill the room...
Glasses hit tables
Billiards, shuffleboard
Talk of whiskey, beer, sex...
...
I can't even remember her name
Or where she was from,
Just the silhouette of her body
Standing in the moonlight
...
She was more
Than my eyes could take in
A beauty off the canvas
And sitting three rows from me
...
Time
The once familiar sound
Of the clock
(tick, tick, tick)
Has been replaced
By silent numbers...
Quickly changing
Lines of light,
Whose hardened edges
Cut through time
As a boat through water,
Leaving me
In the wake,
Struggling for breath