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by Mike Monroe
Half an Hourglass

I'm trying to think of a concrete image to describe how I feel but all I can see is a massive
   block of concrete plummeting from the sky and straight for my head and I look at the
    sky and I see nothing and I look at the trees and I see nothing and I look at you and
        I see nothing and I look into the mirror and I see that the eye of the hurricane
           I'm caught in is me and I look at my feet and I see nothing and I look at
                 my hands and I see nothing and I look into my heart and see that
                        the center of the whirlpool I'm drowning in is me and
                            something's pushing me through the center of an
                                hourglass and I don't know if when I get to
                                      the other side I'll be the way I was
                                        before or smaller than now or if
                                          the center will go on forever
                                              and eventually I'll look
                                                   into the mirror
                                                      and I'll see
                                                         nothing

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