when you know this time will be your last
everything is different
everything is changed
you see as you have never seen 
you live in ways you have never known
and there is too much beauty.

I watch
and I wait
and I watch you wait
and I know though beauty is more pungent
more fragrant
more attaching
the moment you knew
this life was dated
this life was rated
as simultaneously magnificent
and gutwrenching
limited.

you clung to your time allowance
and you were surprised when it passed before you
if the next destination is uncertain
will the following months determine?
can you change to mirror how your sight has altered?
or will you be judged where you have faltered?

I know you know this is your last
you have not given up
but you have been taken over
doing the final lasts 
hoping to ease and calm 
those who still despair
with an air of peace
because you have not been
here or there 

since the first day of knowing your last.

when you know this time will be your last
everything is different
everything is changed
you see as you have never seen 
you live in ways you have never known
and there is too much beauty.

I watch
and I wait
and I watch you wait
and I know though beauty is more pungent
more fragrant
more attaching
the moment you knew
this life was dated
this life was rated
as simultaneously magnificent
and gutwrenching
limited.

you clung to your time allowance
and you were surprised when it passed before you
if the next destination is uncertain
will the following months determine?
can you change to mirror how your sight has altered?
or will you be judged where you have faltered?

I know you know this is your last
you have not given up
but you have been taken over
doing the final lasts 
hoping to ease and calm 
those who still despair
with an air of peace
because you have not been
here or there 

since the first day of knowing your last.