Personal Best

Though we like to pretend The dance is choreographed There looms the pattern More random every day Seen through a pane of glass But clearly magnified We sit and focus And hone in on the worst Yet I Don’t see us running out of time But its true We should've learned enough to Chalk it up as a loss Our day is coming quick We put it off of course In a line of thinking We had doubted from the start The only cost of which would be Our bullshit time Still see us lying in the dark Fixing, just staring at the void Making a list Setting demands Reminds me why I might have cared She said Come take your birds and fly Go find the afterlife Go out and focus Hone in on the void I see you running out of time I see you running out of time Just see you and me Just see you Running Just see you and me Just see you Running out of time Just see you and me Just see you Lying in the dark Lying in the dark