Sarah Casey Poet Blank verse

Eternal Breath

the body deteriorates
every muscle and organ failing
a catastrophic climb
to maintain the bodies' duties
but it slips,
takes a plunge
and now your heart flutters
the beats
become your final bass notes
as the head adapts to the helplessness
it's a pain like no other
a terror of the unknown-
then gone.
As if a gust of wind swooped in to grab the soul
all light
lost
The corpse lay in a captured moment
listening and hearing the final words
It lay there listening 
to your 
eternally warming breath

Sarah Casey

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Zamir Osorov February 7, 2014 at 11:34 PM the marvelous poem about the most solemn event in our life. How pity that I could not granted such eternal warming breath for my mom, in "her captured moment" in summer, 2010. I was just stay near her bed with other relates and wiped.