Running Out of Time // Paytn Harmon


Do you know what it feels like to love someone you know you will lose?
I don’t mean when you are fighting and things get hard and you choose to let each other go,
but rather one where you look at someone with all the love you could gather and it is still not enough to save you.
You know this and become aware of it every time you look at them.
When you are scared to get mad or upset because the time is running out and the precious time can’t be wasted on bickering
because the time can’t be wasted on arguing,
because the time can’t be wasted on crying,
because the time can’t be wasted on the honest emotions you feel,
Because the time is running out.
It’s a little reminder that this is not forever.
You hold each other close even though these arms have long since felt like home.
And you smile with an “I love you.”
Good God, you say you love them every chance you get because you know one day someone will be saying it better than you.
This feeling.
When you look at someone with love and know they will not say it back.
It will be something you appreciate in the end because you were tired of abusing your heart
anyway.
You will smile and laugh knowing that when these moments are over they will be the best memories you have.
You will spend all your time holding one another.
This feeling is genuine, but this love is improbable.
And it is not forever.
So you will acknowledge the existence of it all because pretty soon, too soon, you will start to wonder whether it was real at all.





Author:

Paytn Harmon is a student at Morningside College.






Voice Actor:

Engels Perez is student at Morningside College.