Anticipation

• Artist: akatsukigrlX
• Description: if you have ever run track, then you know this feeling. the moment between the starter shouting "set!" and the sound of the gunshot is the longest second of one's life. it really is. and you feel SO many things in just that one second
• Date: 04/18/2009
• Tags: anticipation

Time stands still
I am at absolute zero, and all motion stops,
Save for the restless butterflies
That beat their wings inside my heart

There is no breathing
It seems my lungs have forgotten how to work
I can smell the tension in the icy air
The stench of determination and sweat and hope

Nervous energy is a fire
I can feel it burning through my stomach
Building up in anticipation
For the moment it will be set free

The air screams with enough silence
That I fear my beating heart will break it
A single moment that lasts a lifetime
Begins and ends with the shot of a gun