4. Eternal Wait 

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Lyrics:

The clock has no hands

Hourglass with no sand

The calendar bled nailed to the tombstone

Counting the teeth I no longer own

Strips of dead skin hangs like wet parchment paper

I peel it back daily searching for the before

Beneath the dermis the seconds wait but fester

Time drips infected a rot I can’t ignore

My ribs hold a swarm of black moths

They chew through the dark lay eggs in the pause

Larvae hatch into numbers that never arrive

I birth tomorrow and swallow what survives

How long

How long

The wait eats the question itself

Eternal wait

No trumpet no break

Just the slow rot of a promise unmade

Eternal wait

Bones turn to chalk

I drink from the puddle of my own melted eyes

Reflection shows nothing but the same endless prize

Scratching my head fingernails ripped from their bed

Etching tallies that crumble before they’re read

Veins calcify into brittle decay

Snap when I breathe dust drifts from the leak

I cough up a century powdered and grey

It settles on tongues that forgot how to speak

Suspended in rigor that never relaxes

Time is a noose made of spinal column axis

Vertebrae creak like frostbitten sticks

Each second a splinter shoved deeper than yardsticks

I’m fossilized mid scream time takes its toll

Flesh turned to amber soul trapped in this hole

This is limbo's call no rupture at all

Just the slow drip of sorrow down eternity’s wall

Skin sags in wet sheets sloughs off in the heat

Of a sun that forgot how to rise or retreat

I’m the calendar’s corpse still nailed to the cross

Counting the maggots that feed on the loss

Tick rot

Tick rot

Tick rot

Eternal wait motherfucker the clock forgot

I still remember the shape of a minute

It tasted metallic and sour

Now even the memory is starving

To bad the hour lost its power

Eternal wait

No trumpet no break

Just the slow rot of a promise unmade

Eternal wait

Bones liquefy

What remains keeps scratching my name

Eternal wait

I am the hour

That never became

I close the eyes that ran out of tears

And keep counting

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

This is where forever begins

Or is it the end