the pause

In  between heart beats


On the edge of consciousness
Were eulogies are written
Kaleidoscope of broken yesterdays
The ghosts of the living
Their voices condescending
In the pause between heartbeats
Gravity is a certainty
Requiem silence echoes
Idealist’s pessimism
Peculiar jaunty mannerism
In the pause between heartbeats
Windmills tilt and all the sunflowers stare
The sun kicks up a flare
In a way saying I am lonely
All the other stars just tickle
The distance to great to care
In that pause between life and death
The world looks and takes a breathe
All the roots are severed
As the trees fall past the tower
Obelisk stuck in another time