Just a minute ago you were bouncing merrily in my palms; shouting euphorically with the full cry of

life,

While at the present moment you lay without budging a

single inch; staring in mute silence towards clouds

drifting solitarily in open space.

Just a minute ago you were smiling to your heart’s

content kissing me profusely on my lips; pinching my

cheeks in flirtatious excitement,

While at the present moment you transited into an

invincible slumber; with your mouth partially open;

rampantly inhaling all dirt suspended in the gloomy

atmosphere.

Just a minute ago you were recounting to me innocuous

tales of your childhood; the moments of mischief that

had their mystical spell forever on your vivacious

countenance,

While at the present moment you incorrigibly refrained

to speak at all; as pools of ghastly saliva dribbled

from the corner of your mouth.

Just a minute ago you were chanting your cloud of

fantasies to me; the dwelling which you so inexorably

wished for both of us to stay in together, While at the present moment you stared for eternity

into my eyes; with the toys held in your fingers

tumbling in incoherent unison on the cold ground.

Just a minute ago you were pummeling me in my ribs;

cheekily cracking the most weirdest of jokes you could

salvage from your repertoire,

While at the present moment you embraced the soil like

a lackluster leaf; with your conglomerate of hair

sprawled into a gruesomely bedraggled heap.

Just a minute ago you sang in magnificent tandem with

the exuberantly drifting wind; blending your sound

superbly with each beat of mine,

While at the present moment you wholesomely failed to

respond the most thunderous of my shouts; as the color

of your skin metamorphosed from a rubicund pink to a

gory yellow. Just a minute ago you were rampantly perceiving the

names of our first child; with the bulky book depicting the same unveiled handsomely in your petite

fingers, While at the present moment you collapsed with a sigh on your knees; with an overwhelmingly heavy layer of

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dust settling on your enchanting face.

Just a minute ago you were proudly assimilating your

hard earned possessions; basking in the glory of the

scintillating jewelry that adorned your immaculately

voluptuous skin,

While at the present moment you lay like a scarecrow

with ominous vultures in vicinity hovering above you;

and the urges in your body now coalescing perpetually

with obsolete wisps of oblivion..

And just a minute ago you were securely alive in my

compassionate arms; with your tantalizingly soft

breath drowning me into whirlpools of exotic desire;

with your ravishing demeanor stupefying me to the most

unprecedented limits, While at the present moment you had left me forever to

rest in the land of Almighty Creator; and no matter

how much I cried; I knew you’d only be in my dreams;

and not by my side….