Falling Forward

Time breaks like shattered glass
Drifting through a past that never was
Light bends in endless spirals
Tracing paths that lead to none
I step through doors that turn to echoes
Chasing shadows made of stars
Every moment folds upon me
Every self I've been departs
Falling forward, falling backward
Now is never, then is gone
I exist in all directions
In a world that won't move on
Cities pulse like living memories
Built from whispers in the dust
Skies collapse and form in rhythm
Every fate reduced to rust
I reach for time but slip between it
Every second stretched too thin
All that's real is just a fracture
A beginning with no end
Falling forward, falling backward
Now is never, then is gone
I exist in all directions
In a world that won't move on
No horizon, no foundation
No returning, no escape
Only spirals, only silence
Only echoes left to break
I dissolve into the current
Neither shadow, neither light
Just a thought within the fracture
Just the hum beyond the night