"Over the Breadth of a Hair"

Can you feel it?
It's closed...
Things always end this way,
Don't they?
She always laughs.
Resonant...my ears burst,
My eyes shatter,
They always do.
Shatter into a million textures,
Into the river.
It hurts too much,
I'm a coward.
We always seek that which is most elusive,
Something that may be only a fantasy.
The birds don't sing,
Children don't play,
People don't love...
Do they?
The laughter's gone,
The smiles fade,
Why don't they ever come back?
Why do they always leave us stranded?
It's just over this mountain,
Dangling just out of reach,
I'm almost there...
Reaching...
Reaching...
And I fall
Into the after,
We all arrive there...
I'm there,
I'm smiling.