I'm so clean; too bad I can't get all the dirt off of me.

Time
stands still
and the world falls away.
Echoes and light
fall around me
illuminating
your face.
Those
four letters
bounce around
on my tongue
threatening
and bubbling
trying to escape.
The words
don't come and
Time
stands still.
Marked,
vindicated,
I stand
bound in chains as
Time
stands still
and does not wait.
Time
rushing
running
racing
past me
past you
out of the past
and into the future as
Time
stands still.