The Last Thing I Remember
By: Mark Lipman
The last thing I remember
Before the world fell apart
Tumbling like the shrieking
Cries of falling flesh
From 110 stories up
Exploding into rubble
Splattered upon my windshield
On the last day
Of my peaceful memories
When the alarm bells rang
Waking me from my naive childhood
At the very instant that
Life as we knew it
Would change forever
When nothing would ever
Be the same again
With the fate of everything
Hanging in the balance
Like an unexploded cluster bomb
In a child's hands
Just waiting to be turned
The wrong way
As our dreams and nightmares
Collide, fusing into one
Like two souls
On some unsuspecting crossroad
Catching that hint of recognition
Waiting in the other's eye
Knowing that this singular moment
Would change the course of history
I opened up the letter that you sent
To read the words:
I love you
I will never be the same again
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