When the other guy can’t stop

Light turns red

Blinking eye

Seconds last

For all time

The screw that’s pitched too tight

Falls to Earth, cuts short the flight

No choice fall

No win match

Lifetime stall

One way latch

With every step abdicating our power

Fatally blind, we set our nooses over

Angry oceans

Destiny or free will propels us into

Glass that shatters

Bullet hole or paper cut

Escape door has been sealed shut

Crack the door that

Cuts the air

And kills the flame

That leads us where

Finite moments

Live and breathe

Not yours to hold

But just to see