Cocoons been set free
Butterflies float vertically
Meth….. cause of death
As he struggles with air…hospice nurse helps him get dressed….FaceTime…. I say…..”bro, all will be good, have a day with no stress” as he’s catching his breath and adjusting his neck…… “naw sis, life is bliss, we all return whilst we originally exist”. “I dreamt of mom & pops last night, I’ll be alright”. Peeking through the phone, I hold back tears accumulated in my dome, my tall little brother skeletal frame, grayish skin tone, sunken cheeks, shallow to the bone…..severe heart damaged, doctors states…..”he aint never coming home”. I pick up my 6 week old daughter, she glimpse into her Uncle D’s eyes, he starts to cry and says his final goodbye….”Love you sis and all the daily calls, same time every day”.
“Time to let me go, we discussed this yesterday”.
Silenced….my eyes forecast a heavy storm. I become selfless and say, “OK”, his eyes roll back into his head as he slips into a coma right away.
I was the last to hear his laugh, and first to hug him when he cried, my role as older sister, I carried with pride.
Wrenched with sorrow… there’s no tomorrow…..vomiting air….emotionally unaware…. lost in borrowed memories
Sorrows a gospel song
Sorrows a cry that longs
Sorrows flowing like a thundershower at the peak of dawn
Demi’s spirit treasured like the jewels encrusted in shafts of our family’s pyramid can never be measured
no longer in pain…….addiction took my brother out this game