seconds   once ignored - now cherished    as they begin to tick away    panting, like a dog in the wind    throat constricted    swelling as a tumor - i can scarcely breathe    my eyes stand in the way    to the world i need to see    hazy melting images coated in glue    begin sliding from my view    and i trample on top of them    now a blind fool    now a blind fool    oh my heavy, heavy aching legs    cannot do the work of ten men    to lift my feet of stone    clumsy, my arms    long and leaden - they drag behind me    carving deep trenches in the rotting earth    oh so tightened    stretched beyond belief    my skin cracks    with the weight of my dying body    and the rage in my head    blood trickles down from my burning eyes    and stings my charred lips    oh dear god - if you would but save me   so much as a finger on my hand    surely i could find the strength to climb    atop a cloud in your sky    and echo your praises    into the light of a new day    but my words are lost    as my bones    snap suddenly    and i am left to lie upon the burning remnants of my life    seconds    eternity    the clock ceases inside of me    oh this silence, this emptiness inside    for the grinding of my teeth at the searing pain    of my flesh and the stench which infiltrates my every pore    silence    eternity    might as well relax    it's much too late    to cancel    all my reservations in hell