#timelost

I’m from a time long from now

From the LP "Gushing Interest"

“Is this it? Is this the Perfect Paradox?”

“At this point, what does that even mean?”

“I mean is it the one Saint used, you know, like actually, not one of the copies or reproductions.”

“All the temporal shenanigans lately make that a tricky question. Maybe it isn’t a copy, but could be from a timeline where Saint didn’t get hold of it. Or maybe Saint did use it in some timeline other than the one that led him back to the Tower.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Just that messing with time, pulling timelost weapons into our timeline—it all gives the lie to the very notions of uniqueness and singular identity. This Perfect Paradox may be just as much the genuine article as the one Saint’s got with him in the hangar right now.”

“Wait, Saint has his with him, in the hangar?”

“Yeah, in a little display rack.”

“Well shit, why didn’t you just say so in the first place? That’s the real one!”

I sat alone today

Quietly

Reading the words you and I shared

Laughing at the memes

The jokes

The little innuendos

That only you and I would understand

I smiled

To keep my heart from breaking

I laughed

To keep myself from crying

Though few if any may know

The way you and I met

The way we first kissed

The way we loved each other

Those weekends spent on the road

Just to wake up

In each other’s arms

Though I have not said many things

If you knew anything

You knew exactly how I felt

Just as I did with you

The day I found out you were gone

I fought through tears to continue

For days after that I wondered why

Why you had to go away

Why we never got the chance

To spend that one last weekend together

I replayed every moment

I’d wasted so much time

Not reaching out when I should have

So many days we went

Without a single word spoken

And now those words you said

Will always be the last ones I’ll ever get...

I miss you too.