04-24-2016, 05:23 AM
How She Went
Terrible
how the band of angels
stood around her bed
pumping oxygen into her lungs
while her wide eyes dried
and I didn't know.
I had to tell them
"Let her go."
Terrible that she died
before I could ask her
what she meant
by seizing my arm
and telling me
"Nobody hurts!"
three times
before letting me go.
I was going to ask
next time I saw her
but that next time
the angels had her already,
the ones on this side
standing ready
to send her on
into the terrible hands
of the others.
Terrible
how the band of angels
stood around her bed
pumping oxygen into her lungs
while her wide eyes dried
and I didn't know.
I had to tell them
"Let her go."
Terrible that she died
before I could ask her
what she meant
by seizing my arm
and telling me
"Nobody hurts!"
three times
before letting me go.
I was going to ask
next time I saw her
but that next time
the angels had her already,
the ones on this side
standing ready
to send her on
into the terrible hands
of the others.