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Nail In The Coffin

Stall, just for a moment so that I might unravel
The strings a pleading omen, not a sound when they hit the gravel

I don't want to write a story if it only reflects poorly
The world inside my mind collapsing
Picture it now trees are snapping

Tonight I should hie back to you
But they're nailing the coffin that I'm locked in

Screaming I'm ringing as the clouds are singing
I'm afraid, can you hear? I'm going impaired
Dialing numbers for slumber I'm a hair unprepared
Missing letters for September can't remember when and where
Writing is timing everything in refining
Make a sound, can you hear? I'm still very scared
Anecdotes my antidote for lighting this flare
Someday it'll out shine your rhymes and neon signs will stop and stare

Stop and wait a moment there's still time to let it open
Secrets are fleeting tokens, just know it's not all sewn in

Tonight I should hie back to you
But they're nailing the coffin that I'm locked in
Tonight I should hie back to you
So I've hammered my coffin, it's better than getting lost is

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh! I kept the first for another day
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
Took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

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