About This Poem

Hourglass: A Soft Drift Toward the Final Quiet

I wrote Hourglass to capture that suspended moment between breath and release, the point where life feels like it is slowing into a gentle fade rather than a violent stop. The typography mirrors the shape of an hourglass, narrowing as the poem descends, letting each line fall like grains of sand settling at the foot of time.

The rising and sinking chest, the silhouettes in the fog, the warmth in the palm, the reel of memories flickering like silent films. These details came from wanting the poem to feel intimate and peaceful, a final gathering of everything that mattered. It is not a poem about fear. It is a poem about acceptance, about being greeted rather than taken, about joy arriving in the last breath rather than leaving with it.

The hourglass is the spine of the piece. The narrowing lines, the stillness, the settling sand. A quiet surrender to the inevitable, written with softness rather than dread.