This Otherness

Was it always this way?

How could I not see it happen -

How could it catch up so ruthlessly

Quick and steady, when I'm not ready?

How come it's taken so long?

I have no answers to sell you -

How come the smiles have all turned into frowns,

Unfeeling - self revealing?

Bringing this otherness, opening the door

To some other place that I've not known before

Blurred 'round the edges, stripped to the core -

The fantasy just can't sustain it no more

Was it always this late?

Where did time take a shortcut -

Where are the tracks of the hours inbetween

When life was waiting for us?

Stuck in this otherness that's opened the door

To some other place that I've not known before

Thrown out of synch like some old acidhead

Awoken from dreams to find nightmares instead

The night is all around me,

And dawn has never seemed so far away