ONE STEP AHEAD.

All my life I’ve stayed
one step ahead
so as not to fall behind
and be overtaken
by the living nightmares
that pursue me.
If they caught me,
they would drag
me down, down,
down to a dark place
where I couldn’t escape.

So I keep ahead of myself,
out of sync.
Always planning the next phase
before the current one’s complete,
trying to dodge the traps ahead
while fleeing the terrors behind.