TRAGIC Poem: I Wish I Could Help You, by Peyton Kullander

I Wish I Could Help You
a thousand miles away
I am listening for your heartbeat
making sure that
thump thump thump
is still pounding
just as strong and fast
as it once beat for me.
I worry about your brain
dripping and melting
breaking and burning.
I worry about your body,
creaking and cracking,
your skin the color of a daffodil
but not as sweet.
these simple things
growing from the earth,
nourishment in one form,
poison in another,
they entrance us
we can’t resist the long dance with death,
waltzing to a hazy melody
until it kills us.

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