Last Breath

My thumb brushed across

Your wrinkled arm

Back and forth

Over and over again

I gave a light squeeze

Our Father who art

We prayed

We cried and laughed

We caught up

We gathered in close

Hovering above your frail

Body like clouds floating

Above a funeral

We rained tears on your

Time-worn skin

You never once opened your eyes

But your presence filled the air

Until it didn’t anymore

The world fell still as ashes

I kept looking at your chest

I wondered when you would

Take another breath and

Shock us with a perfect return

You fought as long as possible

Everyone deserves the end you met

Peaceful, surrounded by an

Impossible amount of love

So much love

“My best friend”

I’d never seen him cry so

Hard, and that’s what broke me

I have never cried so silently in

All my life

Tears slipped and slide

Down the corners of my face

Collecting in the crevices of

My mouth, sadness is a taste

I will never become accustomed to.

Now you are gone

I felt the heat slowly drip

Out of your quarter-sized wrists

Everyone thinks the color of death

Is an ashen gray, but really

It’s a sad shade of yellow

I couldn’t rip my eyes away

From you, one of the most

Beautiful women in my life

You’re still beautiful

What kills me

Is that I am still breathing

While you no longer

Have that luxury.

Love for you still

Fills my shrinking heart

No matter how the world

Warps me, you will

Always, always live

On in the memories

Of pure beauty that we

Share. You haven’t left

Without leaving your mark

Stitched into this world.

Your hands were always warm

And mine cold.

I watched you take

Your last breath

And I will hold that

Breath until the day

I take mine.

Her

You’re still looking for her?

Haven’t you heard?

She’s succumbed too gravity

She’s abandoning the stars for something darker

Don’t bother going after her

She’s a lost cause

A savior who saved everyone but herself

You’re still thinking about finding her?

You’ll find her down under

Still healing those who have given up hope

She’ll be the outcast in hell

The dimming light in the darkness

The one helping the old man on the side of the road

Who will steal her wallet when she’s not looking

She’ll pretend to not notice

Listen kid, you should stick around

Don’t waste your time searching

To get to the top you have to

Step on the heads of those just above you

Push them down to pull yourself up

That’s how you land among the stars

She’s only descending further

How pathetic!!

Willingly walking to the bottom

What a wayward way to act

What a weird waste of a life

If you aren’t looking down from the peak

What is your purpose?

Those who are like me thrive

Those who are like her barely survive

If you’re really still that stubborn

If I really can’t convince you

Can I at least get a boost?

Thanks kid

Good luck getting back to this spot

After you find her

Maybe she’ll already be destroyed

I never understood her

No one does

People demolish things they can’t comprehend

It’s a shame really

Oh well

 

 

 

-AcuteAnimosity