Hold the Future Still

I spent my life

With pockets full of clocks

Trading today

For a safer tomorrow

But every gear

Kept grinding on my thoughts

Till your voice

Cut through the metal sorrow

You said set it down

You do not have to try

To carry the years

All at once tonight

Stay with me here

And hold the future still

Till the rushing quiets

And my hands are filled

With nothing but now

With nothing but you

I do not need

A thousand roads

Just two

I tried to be

A shelter made of steel

You reached for me

With ordinary real

If time unravels

Like a ribbon

From my sleeve

Tie it around us

So the night cannot leave

Stay with me here

And hold the future still

Stay with me here

Let the morning through