The following is a short poem I wrote after reading "The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer." Please let me know what you think! :)

Slip away, for just a short moment

Shake my mind, it only brings torment

As my thoughts curl around reality

They find their way, sneaky and lithe

Laughing as they sting and they bite

Watch you yield to your mortality

And all I am and ever was

Is lost in seconds, turned to dust

All that remains, an empty head

Yet full of guilt and shame and death

And there he stands, so filled with light

That I can't but avert my sight

And shrink back down my pity hole

In search for my forgotten soul

So far I'm gone, can't see the day

My eyes are closed, my mind astray

But when I blink and risk it all

He holds my hand and guides my fall

He tumbles down the hole and see,

His blazing sun now mourns with me