By Ann Christine Tabaka
Dragon’s breath.
Last breath.
Breath of life.
Breathe already!
Do not hold your breath.
Life is too short
but shorter still
are the moments
worth remembering.
First step.
Next step.
Fast step.
Take a step already!
Do not stop moving.
Find your direction
and march towards it.
Keep the pace,
do not look back.
The growing old of youth,
a hard fact to accept.
Slowly pushing back
the curtain of time,
sIlence slips through to the end.
Ann Christine Tabaka is a nominee for the 2017 Pushcart Prize in Poetry. She placed Third in Vita Brevis Best Poem Contest both January & February 2018. She was selected as Poet of the Month for January 2018 and interviewed by Kingdoms in the Wild. She lives in Delaware, USA. She loves gardening and cooking. Chris lives with her husband and two cats. Her most recent credits are Page & Spine, West Texas Literary Review, Oddball Magazine, The Paragon Journal, The Literary Hatchet, The Stray Branch, Trigger Fish Critical Review, Foliate Oak Review, Bindweed Magazine, The Metaworker, Raven, RavensPerch, Anapest Journal, Mused, Apricity Magazine, The Write Launch, The Stray Branch, Scryptic Magazine, Ann Arbor Review, The McKinley Review.
*(a complete list of publications is available upon request)
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