A Fall Frozen in Time

Your laughter stopped the autumn in its tracks
Brown leaves, suspended between yesterday and today
I'll never know if time itself stopped
Or if it was now only you and me running with it

After you I swam in the still vapor on my coffee
I smoked the rays of a motionless neon sun
You vanquished an endless fear in me
In you, forever, solitude

I should've understood then
When we lived outside the past and the present
The future I hoped for
Was unlike the one you planned for

Pain then was a new thing
The songs talked about someone else
Pain now is a good friend
The songs I now sing myself

Although my strength is now spent
Although pain boasts its victory every new day
Time and I still running together
Your laughter now frozen with the Fall