Saying Goodbye

I am like a cloud

Drifting away without a shroud

I am like the rain

Washing away every trace of pain

I am like glass

Transparent and easy to break

I am like thunder

Unwilling to forsake

I am like a seed

That grows to transform into a tree

I am like the sun

That sets with the hope to rise again

I am like time

That never waits

I am like love

That never hates

I am like footsteps in the snow

That can’t be traced

I am like emotions

That never fades

I am like saying goodbye

That evoke a hope to meet again.

Within a Heartbeat

Death, screaming whispers through my ear

The loud silence as I felt every nerve in my body let go

With every heartbeat, it came nearer and nearer

With every breath, I lay engulfed in woe

Helpless now, helpless then

They say life is just a game

But life is the player

We're the game.

The world became a blur, nothing mattered now

Neither wealth, nor poverty

All those unfulfilled dreams assigned for the future

Were all gone, in a heartbeat.

Now floating near the gates of death,

Life repeated itself before my eyes

Presenting thousands of memories within a heartbeat 

I watched as I had to

The laughter of my beloved daughters

Like foam-crested waves fading away

Screaming in delight as the ocean carried her away

Felt their tears slide through their cheeks

And drop on my hands

Like precious little raindrops, falling from the heavens 

Memories, powerful to make me smile even then

As I watched myself evaporate in the wake of defeat

The last I remember, were the blinking red lights and screeching sirens 

Panicked faces and nurses hovering upon my body

But I knew, I was destined to die

And so I did

And it all happened within a heartbeat.