End of the year

time passes me by

like a bird outside my window

like a crow in the night sky 

a soul stuck in limbo 

time 

she teases me 

a never ending climb

with its bones, she seizes me

yet remains something i cannot reach 

time 

a hummingbird 

she flits away

leaving my world blurred

she — now i am betrayed 

time 

i cannot tell 

i cannot see 

i cannot be 

i can never remember   quite so well 

time

it never slows 

just until the end of the line