The World Keeps Spinning

Christmas, 2017
The fairy lights glow with a sheen
My family around the fireplace
Singing songs and saying grace

Looking at the falling snow
Watching their favourite show
This picture perfect elegy
My unintended legacy

And all I see is
Me in the window pane
And all I see is
Our lives all rearranged

Where did the time go?
Where did the time go?

But I seem to forget
That the world keeps on spinning
That the sun always sets
When your day's just beginning

That time marches on
Even long after you're gone
And it all comes around

But I seem to forget
That everything's changing
And that sighs and regrets
Are the ones left clinging

That time moves along
Not caring if you were wrong
And it all comes around

Everything comes in retrospect
Things that memory can't redact
Should, could and what ifs
All those mistimed hieroglyphs

And all I see is
Me trying to stall
And all I see is
The clock ticking on the wall

Where did the time go?
Where did the time go?

At the end of the day
What do they see?

Trying hard to break free
What will I be?

Broken reverie, of that I'm sure
Just a memory of how we were

But I wanted
I wanted to be more

But I seem to forget
That the world keeps on spinning
That the sun always sets
When your day's just beginning

That time marches on
Even long after you're gone
And it all comes around

They're at the end of the line
But I'm nowhere near mine
This string of time
I want to unwind

And as I walked back
To that same old train track
If it all could reset

Where did the time go?
Where did the time go?