Poems

Sing Me To Sleep

Sing me to sleep

A delicate, exhausted soul

Because I

I need to sleep now

Your eyes shine

I see so many things

Memories, good times, and tears

In the end

It was you who made it all worthwhile

Every minute

Every second

Every moment

I lie silent in your arms, broken

But you

You gaze upon me with so many emotions

The world is reduced to us

A mere speck on the earth

But you made me, someone so small, feel huge

I can see everything I ever was in your eyes

Even still

Staring into something of such beauty

The world is small

Warmth

Tears

And your hushed voice

It is all coming to an end now

With lungs that have grown weak, I draw in shallow, fleeting breaths

With a mere murmur as a heartbeat

my body grows weak

You weep

Yet you also smile

Why is that?

I wonder

But i am unable to form words

The words I try to form come out as unarticulated nonsense

You look down on me again

With big

Sad eyes

Your gaze

It tells me not to look away

So I don't

I stare into your eyes

You hold me

Lie next to me

You have always been the warmth while I've been cold

You press your lips to mine

This feels better than when we got engaged

When you promised to be mine

The first time we kissed

And I feel like I am loving you all over again

I respond

I respond as best I can

You kiss me still

And there are so many emotions

In your lips

In your taste

In your shaking body

And your tears as they glisten like the stars and fall freely onto my face

The life starts to leave my body

I try to fight it

I try so hard

And you cry harder

For you

You know

You know that what's coming

You kiss me as you sob

I cry too

I wish you wouldn't cry

Beautiful eyes should never cry

But perhaps

Just maybe

This is the reason they are so beautiful

Because they have cried

Seen and been through terrible things

That's why your eyes glow

Luminescent

As if nothing else matters

But the vivid and luminescent shine of your eyes

I'll miss them

I'll miss you, too

It's relentless

This heavy tiredness

It tells me to sleep

To stop

To lie still

That it's okay

That there's no more pain

Or suffering

With hands of great strength

My eyelids are being tugged downward

I beg it

To stop

To wait

I need him

I feel his lips

But even that is fading now

It's all gone

I swim in a void of black

Tired

Bruised

Bloody

Exhausted

And weightless

I look around

I search for your eyes

Your hands

You

But there is nothing

I sink further into a heavy darkness

A void of eternal black

I close my eyes for what I know will be the last time

With my last seconds

And last breath

I whisper

"I love you"

The world and all it ever was

All I ever was

Am

Wanted to be

It falls away

And there's nothing.

It's all gone.