Love's Remains

Writhing in pain, You wrestle in the bloodied sand-- Clawing at the coarse grains In intense fervor, As if you could pass your pain To the earth on which you throb. Faintly...... I try to call out to you From my sunken stupor on the same arid earth. But my words don't come As my collapsed lungs, Like two deflated balloons, Curl up on themselves inside my pounding chest. Faintly....I see You clenching a missing part of me. Through my oxygen-deprived haze, I realize you took my breath away. The warm, sticky feeling in my fist Catches the last of my senses As I come face-to-face with what remains Of something very uniquely yours-- A beating heart. Just then I see no end of our struggle, Clawing at the coarse grains, As we wrestle in the hallowed sand-- Dying in Love.