JUST PAST DEATH:

 To awake from the depths of sleep
To find Death came to you once again
But it wasn’t you that it came for
To stand there and feel it all
Knowing there was nothing left to do
For the Angel once again made the call
It came to take away part of your All
To feel all the pain of another
To feel all the emotions all the rage
To have your heart wrapped within the cage
To look onward and pray wanting only
for one more day
To awake from the depths of sleep
To find all that is left is memories to keep
To fill the tears gently weep
Wanting only to stop moments of time
To touch death to watch it again open the door
To sit there shaking cause you can’t stand
To reach out asking him to instead take your hand
To wake up to life and realize for years, you were dead
To feel the pain of another ,to try to take it all away
Asking for only one more moment of another day
To see his smile to hear his cry , not lost with questions why
To feel every emotion inside , try so hard to hide
Wanting only to go back in time, before that day
Wishing there was some other way
To touch death as it opened the door
To here it only to say you have life more
To see it come and watch it go
To wake up from the depths of sleep
Knowing all you can do is gently weep
For the memories that you keep
15 August 2011 ARHC
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