Time Stops for No One

I value safety as I swim whilst made of shadows crashing into the unbreakable surface tension Should it rupture I'd lay exhausted - all limbs and branches tangled in roots The sky only witnessed through the lens of somebody else's eye Faint glows of imagination keep me kicking compelled by the slew of demons snapping constantly at my heels - all too ready to consume Night brings evenly spaced stars too regular to be real dark coagulates within the panic button the evaporata makes promises it can't keep yet I'd smash my hand through if I could reach Thoughts trick and tarnish tell me there's no way out til dark and light meld effortlessly to be blindly followed and trap me in place Reality reveals the moon floating on the water with a mirror of itself above and every bit of symmetry echoes within this shadowy self I occupy threatening to disperse And time ticks on I should grow my nails long or pick clean the bones of my fingertips until I can claw myself to freedom obtain a vantage point plan beyond the second in front And I pray Let me outpace the enemy on solid ground or be buried beneath it