No More Time

I have no more time
None for you guys 
None for all the echoes of laughter 
That linger like ghost 
None for all the memories with y’all 
The nights when we watched my favorite movies like Toy story 
Or when the Avenger movies would come out 
When we would have all the movies 
Nights all curled up in a ball 
I miss when we would eat out all the time 
And just talk so much that the time goes by 
So fast 
The way our words ran and leaped off our tongue, 
Fast, faster, fastest 
Like a wind chime in a crazy storm 
Time slipping through our hands 
Like grains of sand 
We would get back home in a dash 
After having such a blast 
Slamming the door so fast 
BOOM!!! 
I have no more time, but what is time? 
Time is memories and memories are forever. 
That will always have a place in my heart 
Time is a river that runs till its legs give out 
A clock that mocks with its same rhythm, 
Tick Tock, Tick tock, tick tock 
Whenever I think about the trips we have went on 
I think about memories because memories are forever 
I have no more time for playing video games 
With my brother when he would come back from the military 
From shooting inside the video game 
And the pixelated victories when all of the battles were fought 
With just a controller in our hands 
To outside in real life 
Now the war isn't pretend. 
Now the bullets are real 
From joysticks to gunfire, from laughter to silence 
It feels like now I am trapped in my own war with myself 
I have no more time. 
But the beautiful memories still remain

--Auggie L., 9th-12th grade