Time Always Has To Go

Memories; time, love and the things not there. Things that make us stronger can also scar us and stifle us. We give and take pieces of one another's life's away.

Full of questions that can only be answered with questions

Is it really brighter on the other side of life?

Can you understand, life is difficult at any age.

Is it really worse being any older?

Do you understand, your love only knows how to torture.

Too heavy hearted to live,

Too weak to die.

Has far as you can go,

Has much as you can take.

You're frightened of life

And you're frightened of dying.

Hiding away in dreams terrible things happen to us all,

Memories are luggage that we carry around.

If only I knew how to be completely distant.

Looking for things that are not there,

Turning to things that are not even there.

We used to spend our days without love,

What makes any other day any different?

Effeminate days bullied by whatever lads are supposed to be 

Once our world was full of Britpop posters.

Staying out longer than allowed playing football all day,

Dressed like little Manic Street Preachers.

Drinking and listening to music all night,

Now I'm frightened of Britpop posters and stay in doors all day.

Nightmares are made of what we were or what we're meant to be

I'd still do anything to go back to those imperfect days.

Losing ourselves for another side of life in someone else's shoes

Stifled by time falling into memories, where does all the time go?

Haunted by ourselves in everything we do, seconds blow into minutes

Changes are easier when unplanned, hours just turn into our days. 

Always minutes away from something else, its harder to chance when you plan  

Before you know it your days disappear into years.

If this is where you want to be? The present becomes a faded copy of the past.

 If that's how you spend your life? Worrying about time will only waste time.

We spend our lives giving and taking bits of life away.

Author's Note

What do you think of the title? Does it work?
And let me know what you think of the poem itself.

Reviews

[2Real2BTrue]

You really do have a knack for summing up the harshness of reality and putting it into writing. "You're frightened of life and you're frightened of dying" is my favorite part. And I like the title, but it's not as 'catchy' (what a vulgar term, sorry) as some of your previous titles.

Nice write.

[A]

Excellent poem, from title to the whole content, your questions made me wonder myself, I was moved by this piece, the subject is magnificent,
hopefully the best of all times are yet to come,
hopefully the past times would be a good memory...
The last part was my favorite, well-done.

[Arabdha]

the title plays in beautifully into the poem..my favorite lines are "The present becomes a faded copy of the past" and "We spend our lives giving and taking bits of life away"..an amazing portrayal of life and transience..

[misha]

The title works perfectly, great piece.

[Poeticadia]

"those imperfect days" were great... but 'Is it really worse being any older?' i'd say it gets better again.... I guess, when so many days had disappeared in to years that i lost count... i just gave up counting. But this poem really reminded me of how i felt when i *was* still counting the minutes past in a panic... and then worrying that i had wasted my time not filling it with anything better! The poem expresses itself very well. I really enjoyed reading it.

[Stef Outsiders]

The title goes great with the poem, there is truth in this. there are things we fear most than others, like aging and dying, losing memories, only wishing we can turn time back. Time does move forward to quickly these days, the days don't last anymore. Great work though!!

[{A}shley {B}lack @-;-]

The title was what first grabbed me to read your poem out of the read requests and i'm glad I read this to start my reviews on a high because I really loved this poem although you could have easily submitted parts of this poem on there own and it would have worked but to have lots of separate components brought together to make such a great piece shows your talent very well done keep them coming

ps really like the picture

100/100

[Neg]

Overall Amazing, Love it!!!! The title does work. I'll be reading more.

[sarah]

I really love the picture and the poem great work!

[trainwreck]

This was an interesting write, and the title definately caught my eye. Great job!

[Rose Masen]

The piece and the title were perfect. I agree with Sentimental- it was haunting. But so full of spoken truth. Amazing piece.