Final Notice

There is no final notice or friendly reminder when people are meant to leave us. They are taken. Without apology or remorse.

Snuffed

How can one snuff out another's life as effortlessly as a wick on a candle without any remorse, regret, or thoughts of repercussions?

Relentless

The future always finds us. It finds us without hesitation, effort or probable cause... Tormenting us relentlessly with small pokes and large prods. And there's no way to outrun it or ability to hide... Unless time chooses to take you... Or you decide to die.

3 Minutes

You were three minutes too late to say your last goodbyes... But I kept him looking comfortable through those final rasping sighs...

Unexpected

I swear you were just here... Warm and alive. Preparing for tomorrow... Not expecting to die. But now the bed is cold and the curtains have shut... Hiding white linen sheets left stained in disgust.

For You

No thoughts. No prayers. No hope. No remorse.

Sallow

When life leaves the body and the skin becomes sallow... Motionless remains are left heavy yet hollow.

Relentless

Wildflowers and weeds now grow upon you... Relentlessly snaking and overwhelming all that had once been so pristinely pruned. But time and nature will steal and consume... Regardless of what you did... And what I was willing to do.

Purposeful Survival

Sometimes I feel like life is just some sick joke on all of us. The purpose of humanity is to do one thing right? We're supposed to survive. Yet here we are... spending our entire fucking lives trying to do everything and anything we can to make it to another day... still knowing that we …

Cold Hand

That moment you walk into your patient's room and she's visibly dead... And the granddaughter who is holding her hand looks at you and mouths "help me" through tears... And you realize that she's been holding her dead grandma's cold hand for twenty minutes while the rest of her family chats... Because she didn't know …