Glass Essence

My essence is glass

The casing is cracked

The lessons I’ve learned are ingrained

This man has learned

How quickly hours pass

Swept up like sand in the waves

My structure is known

And to it, I ‘scribe

I keep to the rules I'm told

But on the horizon

I see with these eyes

The chaos that threatens my soul

My hourglass, oh

It's long since been flipped

I’ve come to accept

That my clock runs fast;

With each falling grain

Fifteen more sneak past

The seconds don’t last

Too fast to complain

As structure slips by

Quickly, out of my hands

I watch as it crumbles

To nothing but echoes

A constitution

With no ruling class

And suddenly -

These walls I once knew

Aren’t so strong anymore

I fear that I’ve entered

A swan dive; where first,

I lept - comprised, strong,

My eyes tightly closed -

Til chaos came calling

And twisted my arms

It tapped on my shoulders

And opened my eyes

To show me the water;

It approaches fast

My poise slowly slips

And soon I am falling

I’m out of control

The air whistles past

Blood pumps in my ears

So I close my eyes

For as I have learned

That’s all I can do

The surface is hard

My glass walls shatter

My sand grains scatter

And soon they are swept

Mixed with water by waves