Our One Chance..

everyday is just as the previous
as time goes on.
nothing stays, it's always coming
and going,
leaving behind a brief memory
of what you so quickly had
and lost.
each second,
before that ultimate second,
had but one chance to have impact
one chance to prove
before slipping away and
becoming only but a whisper
of a thought.
but in that one second,
our souls crying out,
begging for redemption
from each other,
all time stopped.
the grains of sand in the
hourglass froze.
our eyes remained unblinking,
though our hearts still pounding,
still pure.
all was ours,
and we were everything.
but, though a fancy new
phenomona,
this moment, too, had to depart-
and depart it did as
our time-
our whole lifetime in that
nanosecond
was gone,
leaving only the tormenting
memory and lingering
feel of your touch...