A single moment is a glistening sparkle
Drifting playfully on the sighing wind
Individually insubstantial, melting at your gentlest touch,
Your slightest attention,
Escaping by your very attempt to capture it
Destroyed by your every attempt to preserve it
Yet
All those moments that evade your eye
That fall around you, unnoted, unknown
Softly silently settle to the sleeping surface
There to band together in mutual company
To build and pile and grow
To dampen sound and narrow focus
Alone they were each ephemeral
But together they are brutally eternal, grown
Into an obstacle, a hindrance, making
each step an effort.
So you make an effort
Dragging one foot after the other
Crushing together these crystalline moments
That somehow landed outside your notice
While you struggle toward a place
You once knew as home
Dulled by a transcendent weariness
Knowing that should you pause to rest
You will end your days there
Smothered beneath the accumulated weight
of your frozen dreams.
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