One Last Time

It's funny how,

when you think things are going right,

or at least they're not awful,

...everything comes crashing down.

In one word,

one thought,

one moment in time...

it's all over.

you watch the sun set,

the moon rise,

a star fall,

one

last

time.

And then,

in less an amount than

time can be measured,

everything goes wrong.

The world around begins

to fade away.

Every thing you held onto,

every person you loved,

every place your memory lingered,

every thought you ever remembered,

is torn away.

You lose hope,

one

last

time.

Brutally, viciously, painfully,

everything is suffocated.

You watch it and pray first

that it could last,

that everything would live

for just one more moment in time.

But then you realize

the awful, awful truth.

You prayers change,

you beg, beg for it to end.

You pray for the end to come,

one

last

time.

The pain is too great,

the sorrow to overpowering,

the tears too many

and you begin to drown.

You long for the end,

for darkness,

one

last

time.

And then you remember,

you think back to a time,

when nothing was wrong,

when you weren't hurting.

And you smile.

One

Last

Time.