The clocks all stopped momentarily.
A second or two,
just a tick over the grand
hands of eternity.
Just a grain of sand
in the hourglass of our day.
Time froze like
an ice age of seconds.
Everyone stopped on their toes.
Heartbeats
ceased for a solo beat.
Blood stopped its flow
like a blockage had gotten into
the veins of the universe.
Then as quick as it stopped
it tocked again.
A blip, a glitch
in the skin of reality.
No one knew,
they just continued as before
oblivious to the hole
through which the darkness poured,
the torn universe stretched and warped.
Atomic clocks blinked alarms
but scientists ignored the sounds.
Just mixed signals,
misread past particles
on the tuning of the cogs of time.
Just a glitch.
Just a glitch.
That’s what they repeated,
a snagged thread of hope
in a world we knew little about.
They didn’t tell the masses,
kept it to the upper classes.
Everyone oblivious
to the second lost to the dark mist.
The conspiracy reddit didn’t combust.
The world carried on.
No-one mentioned the lost second again
but it changed everything.
The whole world was off axis,
the stars swung past us
a little faster than we could ever have known.
The moon was a fragment to the right,
just a stitch out of place in the night.
Tides swept twice as hard, rains fell upside down
but our memories were scrambled and fried
so, we carried on walking the streets of our towns.
Just a glitch.
Just a glitch.
Or was it?
Had the world short circuited?
The world froze for a second
but in that time
the sleep demons thrived,
infecting dreams until sleep was deprived.
The hive mind delivering their song in a hum.
The one who lives
in the galactic swirls
had come down to snack.
Now time was all out of whack.
Timelines diverged,
memories deleted
replaced with defective storylines
from a place and time
not here or anywhere near.
A mind worm eating through time
and we are the main course
just boiling away in the pan
oblivious to the heat gradually rising.
Thanks for reading
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Peace, Love & Poetry
Kyle
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