While you lay dying
In your bed
At home
Christmas lights
Across the street
Blinked off and
On
At each gasping breath
You took
The last of the
Blinking lights dimmed
As  you drew
Your last breath
The last light now gone
From outside
As the light from
Inside
Died

You are someone
Who makes an indentation
Even in a heart
Of stone
Your warm smile
Melts away the chill
Of a cold heart
The sound of
Your voice
Makes your
Heart beat
The love you
Have
The love you
Share
Makes the world
A better place

You were my past
And into my present
And gone in
My future

... but tomorrow
might be the midnight
of time and tracks
couldn't be found-
you will falter
and struggle for light
and be mocked
by the unsympathetic night

there's no turning back
and you will be blinded
by strange shadows
as they appear and shift
while all around is the deepest black

you will try to speak
but words will fail
they no longer belong
to you--- you will turn pale
in helplessness

it's not fancy nor a dream
neither is it exaggerated drama
you will no longer be yourself
in this phantasmagoria

Men in black,
On the white snow,
Waiting for the darkness to settle in.