Seven Minutes of Silence

Time… Time…

Time… Passes…

And the silence gets louder.

Emptiness fills a heart so heavy,

A thousand wounds nobody sees.

Every drop becomes an echo,

Of a soul that longs for peace.

White blood running through your veins,

Pure and innocent,

yet stained.

A fragile soul,

traumatized, With a thousand tears behind its eyes.

And the lights begin to fade,

All the words you never said.

Seven minutes, one last scene,

Of everything you’ve ever been.

Seven minutes, an eternity,

A thousand moments haunting me.

Every laugh and every cry,

Every hello, every goodbye.

Time, time, time slips away,

And there’s nothing left to say.

Seven minutes feel like forever,

But forever ends today.

Every person that you loved,

Every dream you couldn’t reach.

Every victory, every failure,

Every lesson life would teach.

And the ones you leave behind,

Hold the memories you made.

While the world keeps turning slowly,

Wishing you

could’ve stayed.

An overdose.

They say the war is over,

They say you’ve found your peace.

But was it death you wanted,

Or just the pain to cease?

You wanted all the hurt to end,

But pain was never all you were.

Seven minutes, an eternity,

Every face and every memory.

Every heartbeat, every tear,

Every person you held dear.

Time… Time… Time… They said you’d found your peace.

But I wonder…

Could you have found your freedom

Without having to leave?

Seven minutes…

An eternity…

And all I wish…

Is that you’d stayed.