Moment

time stopped
i could see it 
suspended like a raindrop
clinging to a tree branch
for dear life

i could see time
the hands of the clock frozen 
bird stuck mid tweet
pendulum neither here 
nor there 
red lights glowing
numbers never changing 

i could taste time
the flavor of anticipation 
humid, pregnant air
sticky, salty beads of sweat
staying put
standing guard on my brow  

and then, you looked
right past me
your eyes didn’t even flicker 
recognition or hope
you just glided by
as if I were invisible
i guess to you
i always have been

my ashes 
slink through the hourglass
in a never ending loop
of disillusion

the raindrop fell
now a tear
you continue 
without me