Crawl to Run

Crawling so slowly on the pavement with every detail so clear

Every speck and imperfection magnified as I inch across the surface

Cracks in time echo as the day breaks across the horizon

With it, the mistakes of yesterday’s past are illuminated

Roots pulled upwards, like memories so deeply set in my psyche

But to pull is not enough, and the roots dig into the soil once again

Walking fast-paced forward, but it seems like the pavement is moving with me

Going nowhere with each step, landing again in the same place as before

Dense fog collects in the air clouding everything I see and feel

Even when it clears, the haze’s presence remains etched in my mind

A melancholy tidal wave so forceful it traces itself in its wake

Only to crash ashore, spraying its disdain on everything within reach

Running now, the pavement takes to moving in reverse: carrying me with it

My feet no longer touch the ground but circle in air, aching for the ground below

Claws scratch at the surface of my consciousness

Trying to scrape from it the numbness that curses through my nerves

A life so delicately forged in glass but is yet so unbreakable

But as unbreakable as it was, it infinitely shattered in one drop

Sprinting away from past, the pavement halts and time stops altogether

Paused is time and earth, but I’m still running