Life is but a memory.
You feel it slowly slipping by.
Each day is gone, never to come again.
It cannot be repeated, relived, or changed;
It can only remain
As it was, and never will be.
Some days, Death waits around the corner of the wall.
Its ghastly face and red-rimmed eyes appear
A reflection in the mirror of mortality - whose face do YOU see?
Traces of blood on an empty skull...is it my double, or is it me?
How can we look forward to the future
When there is no guarantee it will become?
In the secluded hush of the hours after midnight
I am ready to recede into The Past.
Was I really alive? What did I leave behind to document the evidence of my being?
The doubts and questions haunt me,stealing clusters
Of the most precious of gifts
Which is Time.
Are bitter tears wasted? Does laughter truly hold meaning?
Or is emotion merely an illusion upon the spectator of life?