Blinking Before “Echo”

One slip

One failed goodbye.

Gone forever

in the blink of an eye.

Doesn’t matter,

Never really did.

For Un-Lasting is the last gasp

just before they slam the lid.

No flowers, no silly dreams

Just silence; dark silence

filled with inward screams.

Days afore rush the closing mind.

The hours; the minutes crashing

days no more; absence of time.

One slip

One failed goodbye.

No one notices

Few even care.

For “Narcissus” surrenders in his mind

 “Echo” laughs now on reflections dried.

Nevermore to himself is he now to preen.

for lasting is the guilt to compensate the dream.

“Echo” fades; she smiles…one slip, one blink….now he dies.

J. Allen Wilson © 2/2008