Beauty Decays

time crawls in my head cries out knowledge secretive and sweet its words are a paradise of the mouth spoken clearly and precise illustrating beautiful scenes but beneath such delight is true nature revealed such smooth to the tongue beauty is easily upturned by crafty hand by crafty mind time crawls like an ugly beast in my head tick tock tick tock turn now to see the best of me wash away like bitter free dream time crawls in my head like the world burning its words are sweet to the mind secretive they are whispered in my ear but all beauty decays with time and that is all that is on my mind