Silence

The air is heavy 

Thick with silence 

And garbled utterings

Can you please repeat? 

I feel numb

Contemplating my imminent loss 

Tears swell

And sighs abound 

Reality has checked me 

The clock is ticking 

Louder and louder still 

Soon becomes sooner 

Til soon becomes now

And the loss is now the beginning 

The beginning of the end