years

i'm not slipping through no more for you
you won't see it
i'm not slipping
no, never
i'm done slipping on through your cracks
i found joy and joy left me
it's not fair
you can't close my eyes anymore
you thought you knew it all

but i have made the world
and everything is you

i'm not trusting anyone with you
you will hurt them
everyone is wasting anything
and years
shift through my fingers
i thought something mattered
but now i know better
the ones who followed our deep emotions
i found them all shrinking beneath
the crevice of your shoe

and i have made the world
and loneliness is new

now i can't feel this anymore
you know
i'm not through it
you can run and tell it over
but you won't show it
we were one and everyone
could die
i was no more happy
than everyone feeling nothing
and your lips and mouth
(they did everything but)
they never said nothing

but i have made the world
and everything is you

years like tears
disappear
all those years
disappear

-winston campbell-
3/10/96