If today
I give you what you ask
Surrender.
Head bowed, eyes lowered
I give up.
All of me.

If today
I lose for eternity
Learn that foreign language
Defeat, is it called?
Croak on the unfamiliar sounds
Wrap my soul around
the guttural crunching syllables
Until I perfect it

If today
The beginning of forever
I smash the clocks
And pretend
That I never knew of time
Or tomorrow
Or hope

And if today
Choking on a foreign tongue
Bleeding into oblivion,
Stuck in an eternity of hopelessness
that will pass us by
even with broken clocks
I come to you,
Will you finally set me free?