Time peels away from the wall…

This time the starting prompt is actually from a Mandarin pop song titled Broken East Wind based on a poem by Su Shi (or Su Dong Po as he is better known as) the ancient Chinese poet which bears the same title as the pop song. 

Time peels away from the wall. I look at what is left. 

Time peels away from the wall. What falls off splinters. 

Time peels away from the wall. I am still left behind in yesterday. 

Time peels away from the wall. I am adrift in photos turning yellow. 

Time peels away from the wall. There is nothing to grasp onto. 

Time peels away from the wall. What does that make you think of? 

Time peels away from the wall. I was half awake, half asleep still. 

Time peels away from the wall. In stripes, spots or flakes. 

Time peels away from the wall. Water peeling away from the sands. 

Time peels away from the wall. I am pulling back from you. 

Time peels away from the wall. I am standing here alone. 

Time peels away from the wall. If only time can stand still. 

Time peels away from the wall. Everything crumbles with the sands of time. 

Time peels away from the wall. There is my shadow on the wall. 

Time peels away from the wall. What will I do with what remains? 

Time peels away from the wall. Everything starting afresh. 

Time peels away from the wall. What would you do differently this time? 

Time peels away from the wall. What do you want to stay behind? 

Time peels away from the wall. Who and what that leave us, that we leave behind us. 

Time peels away from the wall. A vacant house that we used to inhabit. 

Time peels away from the wall. We live there still. 

Time peels away from the wall. I know not when time peels away from me.