Love, I'll show you how to catch time tonight

The first night I stopped chasing time, hollowness groped my throat with its bare hands.
Yet, I just kept suffocating on the absence of everything.
Silence sat on my chest like the hope of the newly abandoned kitten -
Still thinking it'll be called back home.

See, I'm going nowhere with these similes,
Just like time never went anywhere once I stopped grasping it by the collar.
Time stood still, almost stunned,
Then it leaned closer to listen.
By then my heart had learnt that screaming won't help,
So it kept stomping its feet within my empty chest.

There was nothing to run after
Nothing at all to cry for
Nothing even to regret
Nothing was left
And 'nothing' will always be by my side -
A true companion

Unlike time.
It won't run away to be valued
It'll stay. Unlike you. And me.

Love, tonight million stars are collapsing into death
Moments running behind seconds to become minutes that stretch into years of nothingness
So come, sit with me, as I untangle the fingers from around my throat
Come, breathe with me as my heart learns to crawl again for the first time
Watch the meteors suicide in search of meaning.