Seconds Like Gold Poem by Maya Hanson

My heart pounds into place
Lockdown like it knows I'll run out of time
We have to outrun the clocks,
we'll sprint off the world someday

I can see the ending in your eyes
Counting down is so hard but I don't want to beg
No matter what time it is
there's nowhere I'd rather be

Unwind like a backwards sleep
You'll grow up to be a song
So we have to catch up with these clocks,
we'll run out of secrets someday

When I'm with you
I count the hours like copper
like heartache
like they don't mean anything at all
or they mean more than that

When I'm with you
I count the minutes like silver
like blindness means freedom
like we're a million years old
like morning and twilight
hold the same magic

When I'm with you
I count the seconds like wanting
like we could last
like I could open my cracks to you
and explain them like they're yours

When I'm with you
I count the seconds like gold
like I could thread them into a halo