Last Light

Not sure if this works, or is just plain weird!

I'm straining to see though twilight's haze;

 

just a fleeting glimpse, or was it there at all?

 

A face familiar, yet now a stranger,

 

the actions seemingly remembered, yet

 

now unfamiliar; just going through the motions,

 

like those are remembered,

 

yet forgotten breaths breathed through

 

the eyes of someone else

 

Inertia keeps moving ahead, but dreams

 

falling behind; ears straining to hear,

 

a distant melody, that sounds the rhythm

 

of a long-ago song; the soundtrack of what

 

might have been; what was supposed to be