Words

[Jenny Robinson]

The words my voice failed to say,

are the words my mind wished to scream.

As you laid on the bed, your eyes fully closed.

Your breathing slowly coming to an end.

The words seemed to have gotten stuck in my throat.

I wanted to beg you to stay,

I wasn't ready for you to leave.

I know you were in a lot of pain,

but a selfish part of me wanted to stay with me.

I didn't want our time together to come to an end.

I wanted to keep watching tv, and sharing laughs.

As I watch your chest finally stop rising,

I look to the clock to see the final hour in which you passed.

5:28am was the time the words failed to leave my mouth.

You were gone and the words were stuck on my tongue.

As I stood to tell the others, my mind now blank.

The tears streaming down my face,

I only wished to have said the words I wished to say.

Maybe then you would have stayed.

All the words I said to you,

I only wished I said those last few.