For One Second

I could see the fire grow at a frightening pace from the transom over the door The flames heat the square windows and the slim silver panes nestled in-between The beckoning colors entrance some reason to leave it all behind me and run But I'm melting down into sand For one second I felt awake I tend not to appreciate this dear old life of mine Misty hills and muddied fields, a placeholder for my regrets Every inch of this wintery mess is dredged in steep recovery I'll get through this I'll say in anxious internal encouragement But I'm melting down into the dirt below my feet The driveway smolders and the tires sink their teeth into it Every excuse to delay departure in happily brandished And so I clambered back pitifully into my childhood home Where I'm melting down into the wooden tiles below For one second I felt awake I tend not to appreciate this dear old life of mine While I'm fixed on the ground A changed wind blows around But in time I'll have found What keeps me at peace