The Blink Of An Eye

The blink of an eye,

A lifetime comes swirling and twirling on by,

Leaving childhood memories,

Flitting stark through their haze,

As you lay there in bed near the end of your days,

While half worlds away I'm moved gently to tears,

With a soft reminisce through our parallel years,

To think that those times that we spent long ago,

Still live deep within us in ways we don't know,

To come back in an instant when lately I hear,

You lay there in bed,

Your last days drawing near.