A Silent Good-Bye

A Silent Good-bye She didn’t see it slipping away did not feel time’s erasers slowly clearing the board was not aware of her shrinking world. It took longer to find things like words and faces memories and laughter her cigarettes. She did not feel the cold numbing her thoughts a lifetime fading to black. She had seen them leave once 10 children off to school, to marriage, too soon, too far. Now she watched them leaving again, fading, slipping away forever. 2/11/2018 submitted to – Loss of an Innocent Mind – Poetry Contest sponsor – Kai Michael Neumann