Waiting

Seconds feel like minutes

Hours seem like days

Time twists the knife blade sharp

In so many ways

Caught in a perpetual loop

Round and round we go

Can't find the switch to jump the rails

Break the current's flow

Sweeping into day from night

From the roundabout there's no respite

Frozen hard, can't defrost

Paying the price

At such a cost

Running on the hamster's wheel

My sentence is

Without appeal

Long and lonely view ahead

Fills my mind

And heart with dread

My cries are soundless, totally mute

And there's just

No escape route

Autumn becomes winter

In a gradual change

But the season's gentle switch

Brings feelings no less strange

The skies may be blue clear 

And the frost may bite

I only see darkness ahead

Though the view is white

Sweeping into day from night

From the merry-go-round there's no respite

Frozen hard, can't defrost

Paying the price

At such a cost

Running on the hamster's wheel

My sentence is

Without appeal

Long and lonely view ahead

Fills my mind

And heart with dread

My cries are soundless, totally mute

And there's just

No escape route