Rewind

Tick tock, tick tock
Time moved on, yet he did not.
And though his body may age and fray,
His mind stood still, forever stuck.

Stuck in times long gone,
Feeling pain no longer there.
While every day, he told himself;
Tomorrow would be a better day.

Yet that day would come and go,
And come and go again and again...
Until one day he found himself
Ten years older, yet still stuck.

He trained himself to look ahead,
Forget the past and all his pain
But he could wait till the end of days
And still tomorrow would never come.

The biggest lie he'd told himself;
That all he'd need to heal was time...
While the plain truth he tried to ignore
Was that he'd likely never forget.

If only time were like a film,
Which he could play and pause at will
So many would pause their happiest times
Forever stuck in bittersweet bliss...

Yet he cared not for freezing time;

The charms of his past held little sway...

If he'd had the power to control time,

He would always then choose to rewind...

Not to the time when he was in love,

Nor to the time when they'd just met...

He would instead go further back,

Before he'd ever seen her face.

Before he'd ever heard her name

Or associated it with pure joy.

Before he'd ever heard her laugh,

The music that once made his day.

Before he'd known her gentle heart,

Or touched the pain behind her soul.

Before he'd learned her greatest fears,

And held her close to soothe her woes.

Yes, he'd choose to erase it all,

With all the pain he knew would come.

He would give all he had and more,

Just to spare them both the grief

And though they'd lose the happy times,

They'd both go back to ignorant bliss...

And never have to face a world,

Where they both knew how much they'd lost.

So let's rewind and go far back,

To a simpler time with no regrets...

A time when his heart was still his own;

His mind not forever stuck in place.