About To Expire
Do you think you could tell if a person was dying?
Would you stop everything to help them?
Fully obliging
What if the pain was impossible to see?
Not able to detect the suffering in her soul
Covered in debris
That girl, who walked the world only as a ghost
All her symptoms invisible to the human eye,
Her body, used only as a host
That girl whose wounds were so deep
Each day a piece of her vanished
Starved herself of love, surrendering to life,
Utterly famished
She may not necessarily be in a hospital,
Hooked up to wires
She's right next to you
Watching life’s clock, about to expire
How can you help her
If she already died
An empty shell is all that remains
The rest departed to the other side
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