Glimpse

Inspired by the 2001 American science fiction film, Vanilla Sky

What if you knew the exact moment you were going to die...?

That exact second before making the decision.

A decision that could be the end of you...

Pausing, for a moment as it hits you.

A vivid memory flashing before your eyes...

Like the sound of your car crashing

Foiled and wrecked

Ending everything that was you...

Forever more

Simply gone from existence.

What if you saw it all coming...?

Down to the last second.

Remembering the last words uttered

The memory of soft lips against yours

The smell from a warm embrace

The last face you looked upon

The last smile you received,

Joy filled periods in time we wished we could live in

Only to be stunned by the possibility of what would…

No, what could be...

What would you do?

The end comes too quickly

For the moments we hold so dare

Unable to be relived

Disappearing forever like a breath of air.

Are we being all we could be?

When time, eventually, divides us entirely

Should we subject ourselves to a Lucid Dream?

Alter our realities like the script from a movie scene

Reliving it all again

For as long as we wanted

Exactly, as we pleased

No longer servants to our memories

Filtering all adverse effects preconceived.

Yet nothing seems complete

As past afflictions unconsciously seep in

Reality and illusion compete

Paranoia begins

Holding on too tightly causing it all to crumble

Biding our time to see it all make sense

Standing in the rubble

Of the mistakes we make to our own existence

If I died in this dream, I would stop dreaming

A certain dark romance cited at the beginning

What would you do if you knew the exact moment you were going to die...?

A vivid memory flashing before your eyes... 

Olsfred James 2013©