Elegy to Mortality

Touch my skin
Feel it frozen
As for me I cannot feel
Brush my thoughts
Hear them echo
Reprised memories so surreal
Time and snow and moonlight fall
Moments, flakes, and beams
So countless
and useless
so swift
but I remember...
Flushed cheeks, beating heart,
inhalation, exhalation,
Sparkling eyes and flowing laughter
Skin as warm as summer sun
When the world seemed endless
It truly flew so fast
Now I know the endlessness
each moment seems to last
forever
Melting, Sliding, Bleeding
into one another
Oh sweet mortality
I lost you long ago
The kiss of death
must surely be
the most passionate
of all.