One Last Time

So many die with words unsaid

left on their lips

So many die

with hope in their eyes

What thought must have lingered

while they left

Falling into life’s depth

So many unkept promises, ambitions

All disappeared

amidst the constellations

Probably lost forever in the endless universe

While they were breathing their last breath

Their whole life must have flooded back

All those memories felt for the last time

Before they saw the world for one last time

Oh how they’d feared death all their lives

And now hugging it like companions who hadn’t met for lives

Then they close their eyes

And now forget the feeling of being alive

And go where the dark shadow of death takes them

Unable to do anything

The last time they’d remember

They’d been death’s long, lost member