Analysis of Fate's Retort

To live within the moment,
  and write as love does now befriend

“Light shining brightest as
         hours grow short”

A beginning reunites with
  the journey’s end

“Memory imploding
          on fate’s retort”

A window reopens,
  my heart beats faster still

“Epiphany’s march
         neither to nor from”

To be saved in a final breath,
    one last line to say I will

“The past and future
          left exposed—undone”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)