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It's Painful To Watch You Go

I am having a contraction In my heart from the distraction That my tear stained eyes are seeing I am not truly conceiving This sight that's in front of me The torture and misery That its causing is just wrong But I have to be so strong And put on a happy face Never showing there's a trace Of horror inside my soul I have to keep it in control As I walk into the room That is dark and filled with gloom Seeing tubes to help you breath It's hard to really look and see How peaceful you are lying there And all I can do is stare At the condition you are in My whole world just took a spin The day you fell to the ground In a coma's how I found The only guy that I have loved Now it's come to push and shove As the doctors do their best Taking every single test To keep you well and alive But it's getting hard to strive When what they've done is not enough Now my choice is really rough To pull the plug and let you go Peacefully, but I don't know If I should watch your heartbeat Flat line, losing every beat Of a heart that captured mine But I know it is a crime To make you suffer like this So I gently give a kiss And watch as you fade away On this painful and sad day

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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Date: 4/27/2014 4:26:00 AM
Robin... Congratulations. Thank you for the support. XOX~ Linda
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Date: 2/26/2014 9:55:00 PM
I hope you are describing a fictional account here. It reminds me of how they almost pulled the plug on my mother thirty years ago after she suffered a massive stroke. She did survive, and is still with us today. Good overall write with decent rhyming. Your one correction needed is in the fifteenth line: place an "e" on the end of "breath". You need the verb and not the noun in this case.
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