Last One Left

by RC DeWinter

Title

Last One Left

Artist

RC DeWinter

Medium

Painting - Digital Oils-paintography-photopainting

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Copyright 2016 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved

The Relict

Once upon a time,
(forgive the drab cliche;
I am old and tired and cannot think
how to put it another way),
in a far-away life,
I was surrounded by others like me.

We were adventurers - fearless,
eager to challenge and explore.
The world was an unfolding landscape,
full of delight and surprise.
Nothing was impossible;
in our brave optimism we were,
we thought, immortal.

That bright circle shrank.
In their inevitability, time and experience
disabused many of this foolery.
Some embraced the safe;
others abandoned what they could not control,
retreating into the silence of bitterness.
Careless overindulgence took some;
others, in the madness of despair,
chose the final exit.

With those who kept faith I blundered on,
convinced if we persevered nothing
could keep us from achieving our hearts' desires.
Through mud and blood we slogged,
eyes on a far-away rainbow that was often a mirage.

The ranks of this small army, too, were thinned.
One day, standing in a chill wind in an open field,
I looked around and found myself alone.

Of all those who once shone more brightly
than all the constellations in the gentle dark,
I am the last one left; it is a terrible fate.
Which is worse -
the loneliness of losing one's tribe,
or the burden of being the repository
of memories of such grandeur
that no one who was not there would believe them?
~ copyright 2015 RC deWinter

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