January 2020 Free Choice: Deathbed

When the final grains of sand descend,   And the hourglass shall not be turned again,   What plagues my mind and brings me dread   Will be the tears I never shed.   But you, my sweet, whom I met by such chance,   a beauty suspended in tragic dance.   Such agony has hidden behind her smile,   “Perhaps we’ll talk for a while.”   Her restless eyes…