Death is transforming
Taking you away
From mundane life
Sometimes for minutes
Sometimes longer

Emotions swing like a pendulum
Despondency
Grounded
High
Until there is no hope
Then you have to cope
Find strategies, anything
To help the outnumbered days
Pass peacefully

Concentrating
You look up and
Realise ...................
You haven't been
Absorbed
Your subconscious
Has taken you on a ride
A ride through your childhood
Through the fields
Of memories
Through the fields
Of childhood
A brief flitting smile
A poignant sadness
A shared history
A shared now
But no future
On this earth

Death makes you look
At yourself
How you live your life
Who you are
It makes you think
Of the truth

Each day is special
Each moment has potential
Each second just is