The bell kept ringing,

First it seemed from a long distance, mild and slow, then it came closer, as if to signal something urgent, in a rush, was that panic, and soon it was inside our head, ringing like a maniac, loud, fast, for what, and to what end, did you hear that too, as time kept ticking away, as the moments got heaped upon another, as the end came nearer, as I gave up the search, as you became a distant dream, as you slipped away, did you feel the same too,

And the bell kept ringing all the while,

I could not hear you…