Expiration Date: You Never Know

A quick dash across a vast and clamorous room

CRASH—BANG—BOOM!

She collapsed, she fell.

A panic came over the people.

Questions arise. Everyone wonders.

Who is she?

What has happened?

They ponder.

The sirens blaring, nearly deafening the crowd.

And the mass of people pushing each other out of the way,

Just to catch a glimpse of the blazing chaos.

The simple girl who fell with a loud CRASH—BANG—BOOM!

With a bolt was soon to be arriving at the nearest hospital.

The painful, piercing, of people prodding.

She can hardly see.

Sounds have become inaudible.

Her speech, a minuscule heave of nothingness.

She can feel only mind-numbing pain like a weight covering her body entirely,

Paralyzing her to the point of insanity.

Memories glide in and out over and over again, like a movie reel in her mind.

A constant laughter so beautiful, a tear trickles out of her eye.

The children giggling joyfully.

And the explosion of a mother yelling “dinner time” to her family.

Suddenly a loud screech and a hard sigh and the constant beep of the flat lined heart monitor.

That was goodbye.