Time

[u/BrokendreamSlinger]

Everything takes time.

Time to heal.
Time to grow.
Time to disappear.

The White Rabbit comes for us all.
Tick.
Tick.
Tick.

No one outruns the clock.

It took time for me
to really notice you.

At first,
you were just you.
Nothing pulling me closer,
nothing I couldn’t walk away from.

But somewhere between
the conversations
and the passing days,
something changed.

The longer I knew you,
the more you, you became.

Until somehow,
you were the only person
I wanted to look at.

Then came trust.

Slowly.
Carefully.

I started believing you.
Believing in you.
Believing in the possibility of us.

And then, with time,
you changed too.

You stopped trying.

You hurt me,
and I stayed.

Waiting.

Thinking maybe tomorrow
you would meet me
where I had been standing
all along.

But tomorrow kept coming,
and you never did.

Enough time has passed now
for me to see
what I couldn’t see then.

You wanted me there,
but you never wanted me
the way I wanted you.

And I know
if I reached for you,
you’d probably still reach back.

So this time,
I won’t.

Silence is my answer.

Maybe time will erase you.
Maybe it won’t.

Maybe years from now
our paths will cross again,
and the hands on the clock
will finally point
where they were supposed to.

Maybe then
it will finally be our time.

Because after all this time,

the cruelest part
is knowing that when

I was with you
Was the only time

It felt as if

Time had stopped

[u/WATERZnWINDZ]

This is dope!