The moment where you try to catch the sunset

Only to just miss it

The cool evening wrapped around the shoulders of shadows 

Present but unattainable

The feeling where you’re running away

Destination in mind but never in sight

Retreating through the depths of untraversed worlds

A single slip 

A trip over an invisible branch

And you’re uncontrollably spilling over the edge in seconds

no bottom in this colorless, inevitable chasm

Free floating never feels free 

When expectations of hitting the ground and walking away unscathed 

Are placed in frail arms

How can you walk when landing could shatter everything?

The silence is deafening 

Yet it’s not quiet enough

Swimming through thoughts 

Barely grasping memories of times when the light shined golden and not gray

Stuck in the inbetween of what could happened and what will be

There’s nothing here 

In the midnight recesses 

The “darkest corners”

Nothing but yourself 

And the feelings you live with

Days pass by in waves of grays 

The longer it takes to paint jovial faces

The quicker they fade 

Sometimes the haze takes a break

We can grab the wall and pull ourselves to the top

Whispers of the carefree person of the past escape

And all we can do is hope we stay standing