She was ebbing away.
Only moments before I could feel the rhythmic boom of her pulse, tapping away faintly against my fingertips as she struggled between life and death.
We all pay this price eventually, and we had said our goodbyes many many nights before and awoke to breakfast in the morning.
But as she faded quickly, one ragged breath after another, farther into oblivion, I knew this time, reality was well upon us, our constant practice didn't prepare me enough for this. I still wasn't ready to let go, and how could I be? then almost like a flicker, I see a smile form at the corner of her lips, forming words I couldn't quite make out but knew all too well by my hearts intuition, how could she manage a smile when I knew not the first step to mending my broken pieces.
Alas, I now know, how couldn't she? she was free, truly free, finally. And setting me free as well.
Albeit, I didn't care much for the latter, The former was what got me through those lonely nights, and my first step on the road to healing. Goodbye my Lover
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