Middle Of Time (Rewind)

In the middle of time
I reach back and ask,
How'd I get lost
in the future so fast?
Rewinding years
till the clock restarts,
stopping just short
of a memory too dark.
Caught in a corner
sidestepping freefall,
paused in a moment
that's not me at all,
replay is bound
by intractable fear -
where is the one
who catches my tears...

It's always been you
and it scares me, so deep -
I'm only myself
when my heart's at your feet.
But you, as i find
even so far away,
you're right here beside me
in time-frozen space.
Across a broad ocean
of strange heads and feet,
not sinking but flying
as our eyes meet,
where once the reflection
was blood-red and black,
now you're all i see
as i find my way back.

Rewind again
and in vortex descend
to the flashpoint where everything
came to an end,
screaming alone
at the gateway to hell,
losing it all
but with no one to tell...
Waking to nightmares
that pulled me back in,
saved from that hell
by the Love in his hand -
A mirror of something
much later to come -
fast-forward to you
where time's just begun.

It's not desperation
to walk in the clouds,
it's just dispensation
for fighting it out.
Time moves in circles
but i'm on the line
that points me to you
and the future that's mine.

Tomorrow is here
and the pendulum moves strong
In the middle of time
is where i belong.

Damn Boo.

Maybe I'm prejudiced, but I'd say this is a shade or two above awesome...
Still wondering how you can manage to "break my heart" in such a sweet way. This is fantastic babe.

You're duh best,Tess!Love you style of posting your verses(same as mine!)Seriously,I could hear Jimi Hendrix doing these as Song Lyrics.I wouldn't be me if I didn't make a suggestion;it's not desperation,To walk in the clouds,It's just dispensation,that makes it(or you,or him)so proud.I think I got the meaning,if not,NEVERMIND!!!Other than that,I love this,another nomination of Poem Of The Month!

She messaged me about this about the time she posted, saying she didn't like the structure that this "fell into" as she started writing. So now I'm reading it and thinking.... "What??" Lol ... coz it just flows and flows. Smooth as silk.

Thank you both so much!! Also Doug thank you for the suggestion and it's a very good one! but there is specific meaning in those lines so i hope you'll understand

It took me almost a whole year to write this...no not that i started writing it that long ago, but the thought was born at a specific point in time that i still remember clearly....and the lines around "time-frozen space" came to me bcs someone even has a pic of exactly that point in time, so how about that?