Before you know, ...
The one you loved & fought,
With consistency and accuracy,
Of the latest torpedo.
One who promised to share
Your ups and downs
Little, if not more!
Has decided to be gone.
Leaving you cold and numb,
If not dead!

Before you know,
Your 'great idea',
Is outdated by someone else's',
Success for which you toiled,
Several nights in a row,
Doesn't taste as good,
With an ulcer !

Before you know,
Your day starts looking,
Like your nights,
Sea whose salt you could breathe,
A decade earlier.
Today,seems outlandish and unique.
Once, you were your child's,
Center of The Universe.
Today, you're thankful
He chooses to play chess with you.

Life is short...
Rightly so.
Would it be good enough,..
If it was long drawn out,
Treacherously unending,
Intolerably achingly infinite?