i held a life in my hands today and tried to give it back but could not she had fallen too high into the light and my breath fell short perhaps she paused perhaps she knew i see her face again when she was young when she was who she was and it will always be there framed in light pure as breath alive with the promises of youth
several years ago I was called to a room where a woman had stopped breathing. I started CPR...first time I had ever done it...and continued until the emt's arrived. they zapped her with the defib and got a heartbeat. I've never spoken to her. I wrote this before I realized she had survived a long period of rehab.