The Great Entertainer

For the briefest moment His face shines upon you, You are the center, the focus, all that is important in that flash. In His gaze your are nurtured and grow to your prime, In that single glimpse you see in His eyes the briefest image of what you can attain. But soon, he begins to look away, you begin to wither. The undoing lasts far longer than the flash. Soon He has looked away; it was but a vapor as they say. He looks away. Life, He is a spirit of great charm, intoxicating beauty, but he is fickle. The greatest of entertainers, the briefest of friends, the cruelest of enemies shortest of all our acquaintances. Inspired by Tithonus