Paranoia

They don't call anymore, do they?

Not even to find out how you are,

let alone to know things from your life.

You are left to cry alone,

get unhinged,

paranoid,

stingy,

shrivel up

age by yourself,

wrinkle and fold yourself away into nothingness.

Time speeds up

slows down

speeds up again

and then stalls too -

all relative to how you feel

and your circumstances.

And for some reason

when these are negative,

time is slower and stalls more,

why can't it be the other way around?