Borrowed Time

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I'm living on borrowed time

I know this; this I know

I've no coherent thoughts

About which way that I should go


Like a broken record

Left in someone else's closet

It's sat there for so long

No one knows or cares who bought it


Like a little fish

Slowly swimming down

Separated from the others

As it starts to drown


Like a falling leaf

Covered in ash and soot

As it lands on charred grass

It gets trampled underfoot


Like a flower petal

Dainty as can be

Doomed to wilt and die alone

For all eternity


Left in broken silence

Left by those I love

Left to rot on burning ground

Left crumbling thereof


Left to deal with things solo

Where no one else can see

That carrying this heavy weight

Is slowly killing me 

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