What is it like to be
near the coming of the dark?

You must feel it,
know its presence,
sense it in the shrinking
of your life,
and the taste of each breath.

What is it like to face
eternity as you come
at it and it at you?

Your thoughts must turn to
what your life has been in the living
and regrets, in what was once
there but departed,
as the colours turned to greys.

 

1/6/2024