60 Seconds

60 Seconds Gruelling nights with haunted dreams Explosions tearing at my seams The worst, last night; I couldn’t sleep My expendability made me weep. With dawn awoke a brand new day A deathly mare in my mind lay And there it lay until at last 60 seconds had oddly past. 60 seconds not thinking of you Acidic eruptions did not spew From the pit of my stomach to expel my heart First waking moments not torn apart. The realization made me smile I pondered it for a while The first 60 seconds that you weren’t there The first 60 seconds I did not care. No thoughts of kisses on my lips Or intertwining fingertips No mocking jokes to make me giggle Or cheeky moves to make me wiggle 60 seconds without your eyes 60 seconds without your lies For 60 seconds my heart was mine For 60 seconds I did just fine. Sadness, still it lurks within But I shan’t touch a drop of gin Those seconds showed me I shall win Now the healing can begin… 9th April 2019