Splinters

Time's a new splinter
Buried deep in the opposable thumb
Finding new ways drive itself further
Making you feel grimly aware the more you touch
I keep thinking the body will reject it out
Find a new way to calcify it down
Alternative means to grinding teeth
Loosely kept terms only here to
Make you feel more or less alive
Redefining what it means to survive

Times a conceptual straight jacket
Confining you to moments you wished to forget
I want a past and future to forget
To live and die, a
Stand-in-line instant validation

A few brief moments
A few pure moments of gold

Everything you didn't notice made you what you are today

A foundation braced to break the backs
A product of everything you lacked
You stand up straight, poised and posed
Straight in line, splitter exposed
Wanting on a validation, or further inclination
That makes you feel better prepared