Lifetime

Anxiously blind to
Tomorrows,
Their cruel promise of happiness
And loss,
Carefully forgetful of
The pasts,
Their bittersweet slivers of bliss
And sadness,
A feather
On a windy beach
Taken
Up to the muted heavens,
Euphoric
In its vast and airy
Loneliness,
In its brief and whirling
Lifetime,
Only to give in
To the call of 
Winter.