Blaring music,
Playing loudly through the headphones.
Repressing my thoughts,
Shoving them back.
Back into the deepest,
Darkest corners of my mind.

No escape.
Trapped.
Only freed in the pause
Between the tracks.
Time slows,
And those seconds pass like hours.

I'm trapped,
Left with no escape.
My mind is flooded with these thoughts.
Thoughts that maybe,
Maybe somewhere in time and space,
That maybe we could work.

My only escape proves to be the words,
These very words.
Laid out on these pages here for all.
Laid out in a clustered mess,
But isn't that how it's always been?
I begin to feel a sense,
I sense my freedom,
Slowly beginning to form.

Less trapped.
My escape becomes clear to me now.
I'm moving on,
But never far from you.
My greatest weakness,
But the one thing that always builds me up,
Bigger, better, and stronger than I have ever been.

Entrapped no more.
Finally free,
Free from the grasp you've held on my heart.
My escape has come,
Sooner than I ever thought it would.

Goodbye may hurt us both,
But I've never been more sure.
The hurt I feel is not of loss or longing,
But it is that of a broken heart.
A broken heart that will never heal.

This old heart of mine will keep beating,
But always one beat slower,
The rhythm I had was lost,
It was lost when you left.

I will grow,
I will continue to love,
But it will never be the same without you.
Gone, now, are you.
Far from reach.
But you will never leave the confines of my mind.

Trapped are you,
Forever in the deepest,
Darkest part of my mind.
Waiting for that gap of only seconds,
The seconds that pass like hours
Between my favorite tracks.