Tense

I am slipping into the past. 

Everything I have known and learned to value, is slipping into the past. 

Western democracies have been possessed of a contagious psychosis. 

We are on the brink of tyranny and I have no idea what I can do about it. 

the weight of clouds 

I cannot hold this sky up 

on my own 

Everything is slipping into the past. My self is slipping into the past.

my North Sea swims 

seizing twenty minutes in 

the present tense