backstagehabits

why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

2:45 AM.  I have five hours to the minute until my alarm goes off, telling me start another day.  Five more hours, to the minute, to lie awake, contemplating what comes next.  Five hours, to the minute, the second, the day.  Five hours until I have to start over again. 2:47 AM.  I have seventeen hours until I tell them the truth about who I am.  Seventeen hours to the tiniest little tick, until the little hand goes 'round.  Then a bell chimes, and I've got seventeen hours until the truth comes out. But this is the way we love, this is the way they'd love.  Arms reaching arms, spinning around mindless faces, click after click.  Time.  We spe