2 Seconds - Rustdawg73

2 Seconds
Two seconds when your lover’s eyes lock onto yours for real—
Two seconds when the door swings wide and you can’t hide the feel.
Two seconds when the condom breaks and panic grips your chest.
Two seconds when your throat locks up and swallowing’s a test.

It’s the moment that the bullet pierces skin and changes fate.
The breath before you kneel and beg forgiveness while it’s late.
The gasp before a baby screams its lungs into the air.
And the silence after someone’s gone when nothing’s left to share.

We orbit on this old worn-out sphere and live like nothing ends.
Like life ain’t but a moment held between two heartbeats, friends.
Then suddenly the whole damn game just shifts beneath your feet.
It’s only two seconds to change a life, to make it incomplete.

Two seconds when your tires kiss the ice and time goes slow.
Two seconds when the debt gets cleared and you can finally go.
The soft laugh echoing through the trees on some forgotten night.
The first note of a song you love that hits you just right.

Two seconds when you ask your old man for the keys again.
The lingering gaze from someone passing who you’ll never ken.
The panic rising in your chest when you feel something wrong.
Two seconds how you realize this ride ain’t very long.

Two seconds when you help somebody pull themselves from down below.
Two seconds when you stab a friend right in the back and watch him go.
That final breath drawn inward while the last light fades from view.
Every word that ever cracked a heart wide open straight on through.

Every conversation that had meaning carved between the lines.
Every lesson someone learned to live by while they crossed their mines.
Every burning want that kept them moving through the darkest night.
Two seconds is the crack between your darkness and your light.