Flat-Line

I see your pulse flat-line
you lied and said you’d be fine
that we’d be together 
until the end of time

I watch as you fade away
slipping into that
dark, uncertain abyss
from which no one can return

I can feel you growing cold
we’re not even old
and yet
your soul has left the earth
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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