I would try to write about your eyes
and say all the sappy love **** I can muster
but you are more than that..
I would tell you how you are like a safety net
below a burning building
placed a little too close to the flames
but you are more than that..
I can't describe you exactly,
just like the universe you are ineffable
and just like life you are inexplicable.

I have witnessed my mother
brush swiftly passed never-again
as the contents of the bottle hit her palms.
I have seen the light removed
from my grandmothers eyes
as the life was taken from her lips
but it seems to me, being with you
is the closest to death I've ever been.
I have fought off death's name
with broken knuckles and battered wrists
but this time, only this time-
I think I'll let it win.