Precious Seconds

A sordid promise

Inescapable

Unavoidable

A hand-written note on a table

A wilted flower

An empty chair

Life, a harmony to death's song

The soft sigh of a last breath spares none

A child

Mother

Lover

A plant

Predator

Prey

Precious seconds

Stolen from death's hourglass

Light is fleeting

Darkness is eventual