The Day's Echos

Breath catches,

warm then cold,

birth into fading.

Sunlight against closed eyelids,

swallowed by a hungry dark.

A child's laugh,

echoing down a long,

shadowed hallway.

Touch that soothes,

then claws that tear.

The scent of earth after rain,

the acrid sting of betrayal.

Heaven whispered on a lover's lips,

hell blazing in a stranger's eyes.

Are we angels in tattered wings,

or demons cloaked in gentle light?

Just echoes bouncing off

the walls of night and day,

becoming and unbecoming,

with each stolen breath.