A Fleeting Moment

It stays with you for the rest of your life
Like sweat lingering on the skin or the smell of sweet perfume hovering in the air
To see death, to feel the agonizing sorrow
To know the cause was the loss of a dream, an identity
Your own destiny would be interwoven with the panic and frenzy
Of buzzing busy people scurrying about in their imaginary world
If you let it, if you don’t take a stand and fight for meaning, for purpose, for passion
If you sell out your soul to useless expectations, time honored declarations
Still reeking from the spilled blood of young, innocent men trying to think for themselves
How dare they? To press beyond what’s known. Who were they?
The inner child within each of us who still believes won’t give up
For they know that life is a fleeting moment
And there’s still a chance as long as there is yet another breath to take
Too naive to realize, to visualize, to see any insurmountable obstacles
For if there is no second glance we must seize while there’s still a chance
The day is breaking like a sheet of glass, shattered, irreparable, undeniable
There is but one day at a time, there is but one life that is mine
The sun will set and then the day is gone
Make haste! Make haste! The cry is made
Forget romance and serenade the beauty of the truth we all receive
We’re here today and gone tomorrow; embrace the agonizing sorrow
Like sweat lingering on the skin or the smell of perfume in the air
Death will encompass every life
So live this moment before ‘tis night