Precipitous Death

Death came to visit, an unrecognizable guise at my door

Intentionally, viscously crumbling my world to its core.

Spinning in perpetual haste, you then appeared out of thin air

To bid farewell, seek forgiveness, and our differences repair.

Realization and understanding evaded, deigning to deceive

And in the skip of a suddenly silent heartbeat, you did leave.

Caught in a spiral of dismal, devastating distraction

Time was no friend, leaving a lingering depth of reaction.

Incessant reality broke forth in a parallel window of time

Overwhelming cacophony of loss and remorse completely all mine.

Never to be loosed, those chains shall relentlessly bind.