Everyone dies alone.
When you close your eyes, for the last time
I want to be there, holding you hand
Knowing, you'll be happier after this
This unfamiliar blackness passes -
It's nothing you did, my love
This is by divine design -
Don't fear the air opening up a pathway
into voices familiar, colors unseen
and unspoken, and eyes that feel ecstasy
And when warm chills kiss your temples
and cool liquid wraps around your arms
When your legs go limp but heavy
and your heart is merely a memory?
I will love you, I will love you
I will love you like a city is noise
I will love you like the stars are static
I will love you, from so far away
with patience, and acceptance
And I will love you, with a damp teal
cloth patting against your forehead
I will love you, as the hospital bed
becomes a poem, and the poem becomes something more -
I will love you, I love you.