I was blind to the truth and the light.  No, not blind really.  I completely saw 
the way things were.  I told myself over and over again it would end this way.  
Yet, I had to chase it anyway.  Turn up the volume, burn up in the fire and live
a little bit faster than I was.  

Never ends, the games people play.  Well, I�ll stop playing games one day.  I 
know she loves me and will never stop.  But she�s going to be happier in her 
life, and I will live as long as I can myself.  Movie-like, a parting of ways to 
walk roads of sadness and joy.  

Time to go soon.  Hold her hands a last time in mine.  A parting that will never 
really separate us.  We still talk now and then, tell a joke and a flirt.  
Always joking and flirting we were.  We both always said love lasts forever.  It
really does, but sometimes you just can�t have love conquers all.

I walk in and she�s sitting there.  We talk of old times and all the things 
we�ve been through, as well as the things we never quite got around to doing.
She doesn�t hear everything I say.  She is already one foot into her other life.  
And closing her eyes, she says she�s very tired these days.  I smile slightly 
and nod.  I touch her face, lightly passing my hand over her eyes.  She closes
them again and falls asleep.  I know she won�t wake up.  Leaving the hospital, I 
cry at the bright sunshine. 
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