It comes unannounced and undetected,
Creeping up on you unexpectedly,
Even if you had been counting its steps,
Till the day when you'd lose count,
Or maybe the counting would lose its meaning.
It colours your mind with sadness,
Which becomes inexplicably unbearable,
And at times it has you in a choke hold.
You'll stop listening to its footsteps,
And it'll stand at the door beckoning to you,
Smiling mockingly at your plight.
No amount of tears can stop the conveyor,
That's dragging you in its direction.
Recognise that crushing feeling in your chest?
And those old songs ringing in your ears,
Which were once just music,
And now they've blended with your life,
Till those baleful tunes seem to control you,
As you move in a hypnotising agony.
This feeling has a gravity which pulls you down.
Somedays you'll feel like curling up in the dark.
Anything is better than it's doors.
But you don't get to stop time.
No, not in this life, not ever, not in this dimension.
You can't outrun your destiny.
Time flies faster than light near it.
Standing at the precipice of your impending sorrow,
It grins like a madman of inevitability.
It'll tear away words before they can be said,
Until every happy emotion is sucked in its black hole.
It may erase all traces of your existence.
And you'll exist just like in dreams,
A familiar face in an unfamiliar mind.
It is evil and yet it's life, it's destiny
It's nothing but a GOODBYE.

A/N Well... Don't know of anyone can relate and frankly after facing it so many times throughout my life I doubt it makes any difference — another Goodbye... but as emotions grow and mature things sometimes affect more... 😔.