Metallic Aftertaste

the floating and invisible moment

I try to freeze this moment but it keeps escaping me.

Be here now, be here now / but here is always leaving.

Even when I’m present in it / It is already slipping away

Time marches on while I drag my feet / and try to straddle now and then

Every moment fading into an inky black past / They happened, I swear, all the moments that made me

All the scraped knees and chipped teeth / They happened / somewhere behind me

in the floating and invisible moment.