Comfort Zone

We are all alive and on the planet Was a thought that came to me Often in the not-too-distant Long ago And there was comfort in that Present tense, security Safe and sound The way a child Surrenders in its mother's arms. I realized then, death would take us all One by one, the future inexorably unmerciful Until our little family unit Five of us, pitted together against the world Was no more Counting down from the beginning 5,4,3,2 My sense of self diminished Soul by soul. I stand here now alone None are alive and on the planet Save me Save. Me. I cannot save myself For I too, am lost And will wander and wonder Until my last breath is extinguished And all of us are no more. All of us in our common place No more. And someone else will see a sunrise And someone else will find a moment The sad, sweet reassuring moment Just before. ~ Laurence Overmire