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The Untitled Poem

The Untitled Poem

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"I saw death from the closest quarters and it was not me who was dying, 
'twas someone I love perhaps more than myself; anything else, I would be lying.


First glance at him and I knew I'd found my guardian angel, but today I sat next to him in a vehicle with high pitched sirens, transfixed as roles reversed; 
and my blessing turned into my biggest curse. 


I looked into his milky eyes seeing not even a cry for help,
my own cries doused by the sirens or maybe the alarm bells ringing in my head. 


I kept screaming his name and then some more for that's what the doctor told me- 
"Your words are the only thing keeping him alive, so just talk to him, please."


I was scared to death, an irony of sorts and yet my tears won't fall;
baby I've loved you more than you can ever know and I have to tell you that you're all I had been waiting for...


You can't leave me like this for we've just started and there are too many miles to go, too many places to be 
and too many kisses left incomplete. 


He suddenly takes a short breath, breathing a new life into me.
Now the only challenge is to keep those breaths going, till the time we reach..."


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