10 Minutes

10 minutes and I'm face to the wind.
10 minutes and this day comes to an end.
I'm moving sixty miles to nowhere fast;
think I'm the first but always coming in last.
10 minutes and I'm crying away this pain.
10 minutes and I'm watching dish water roll down the drain.
10 minutes and I'm listening to the days chatter.
10 minutes I'm watchin' these birds scatter
to their cars, the bus stops, thumbin side streets.
10 minutes and I'm alone with me
wishin' I was 10 minutes from an ocean tide,
10 minutes from some kind of emotional ride,
10 minutes sleeping inside a euphoric dream
and I'm 10 minutes from bursting at these seams
10 minutes from death
10 short scattered breaths
10 minutes from the doors closing
10 minutes from hoping
for 10 more minutes.

~ws~