Half-Life

In one moment, it all can break

You pinch yourself, but you’re already awake

With no warning, the sky can crack

And take something that you can never get back

It leaves a hole that can't be filled

But time will let your heart rebuild

The atom bomb, is now just glowing embers

With every dawn, I'm feeling stronger still

But despite the slow decay, it never goes away

The slow, hypnotic, asymptotic slide

Toward letting go

The time passes, in measured steps

Most days are better than the rest

Till one day, it’s a fading scar

So small, but a part of who you are

And though that scar will never heal

The mind distorts and time conceals

The atom bomb, is now just glowing embers

With every dawn, I'm feeling stronger still

But despite the slow decay, it never goes away

The slow, hypnotic, asymptotic slide

Toward letting go

The half-life is a dull knife

With a blade of rusty steel

The memory that's part of me

It never really heals

Every day it's dimming

As the cloud around is thinning

But the pain, it still is stinging

When I sleep

The atom bomb, is now just glowing embers

With every dawn, I'm feeling stronger still

But despite the slow decay, it never goes away

The slow, hypnotic, asymptotic slide

Toward letting go

The once torrential, exponential glide

Toward letting go