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I loved you the other day as I watched you die. And still today, as you cheat death, I love you the same. You live like anyone else- dying with each exhalation. And I watch you die, each day. I feel the time we share slip past. I feel the heart that beats lose out. I feel the idea of us grow slight. I watched you dying today- sleeping soundly as I cinched my tie- sheets pulled tight as if an image of sound contentedness. I watched you dying today- somewhere in you, a dream.  Somewhere in you, a heart beating- carrying you along like the rhythm of a drum. I watched you dying today- as I died along with you in time.
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Nov 12, 2013
Nov 12, 2013 at 8:59 AM UTC
How We Die, Always.
I loved you the other day as I watched you die. And still today, as you cheat death, I love you the same. You live like anyone else- dying with each exhalation. And I watch you die, each day. I feel the time we share slip past. I feel the heart that beats lose out. I feel the idea of us grow slight. I watched you dying today- sleeping soundly as I cinched my tie- sheets pulled tight as if an image of sound contentedness. I watched you dying today- somewhere in you, a dream.  Somewhere in you, a heart beating- carrying you along like the rhythm of a drum. I watched you dying today- as I died along with you in time.
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thomas-mooney
Nov 12, 2013
Nov 12, 2013 at 8:59 AM UTC
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