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 visualized in the air

To bid farewell, seek forgiveness, and mend our strife with repair.

Realization and understanding evaded, deigning to deceive

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

Caught in a spiral of dismal, devastating distraction

Time was no friend and left a lingering depth of reaction.

Incessant reality broke forth in a parallel window of time

Overwhelming cacophony of loss and regret were completely all mine.

Never to be loosed, those chains will forever relentlessly bind.