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Sep 2017
A single heartbeat echoes on forever throughout time
Crackling amongst the trees as they sway in the wind
Skating over countless wakes into the shimmering sunset
Shattering through space into all-embracing nothingness
A lonely heart beat stranded amidst oblivion by its lonesome  
Abandoned by existence
Silence

A twitch of sound
Could it be?
Still carrying throughout the extinction of all other sound
Fighting, still fighting to thrive on the idea of its failure
Crashing towards life like the lonely reaper trying to consume it
Faster and faster it flies through the heavens soaring high
Booming swiftness hurls it closer and closer to your life
Closer yet so much closer to its home where it began
Pugnacious defiance to reach the one it is trying to save
Seconds decide the difference of your beating heart
Silence

Though promising, life could not be saved in time
The beating heart has expired
It is now just an empty vessel, leaking and dissolving to ash  
Through lengthy intervals ash will soften into nothing as it was meant to
But a single heartbeat will echo on forever throughout time
Side by side with the
Silence
Brandon Cotter
Written by
Brandon Cotter  32/M/Sparks, NV
(32/M/Sparks, NV)   
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