The Future's Open Space

from Waves by Ryan Lee Williams

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The weather's already changing, turning cold with thinning air
Now I'm in a state of waiting 'til I get up out of here
Three long months of purgatory, staring at the date
Afraid to start anything new, I've got time but it's too late

Nothing here seems possible with both ends burning fast
The future is uncertainty, more hopeful than the past
The present is a combination, blurred but well defined
Shifting patterns only viewable once left behind

Questions form, perspectives warp, the static isn't real
Dynamics push and pull the vacuum, popping out the seal
Making everything more complicated than it once had seemed
Variables I'd glossed over before keep changing the meaning

If I find something on the road, I wonder if I'll notice
or save it for another time when I forget the context
Changing what was present to another memory
A non-existent story that I made from fantasy

But how much does it matter if the pieces stay in tact
or reshape through the future, fluid fictions of the past
If I should leave this city and find solace on the way
then I'll meet up with those stories in the future's open space

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from Waves, released November 1, 2010

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