Your last breath
Held mine ransomed
Cradled in my arms
I watch life slip
From our together world
Towards your single belief
Of life elsewhere
Helpless in your fathomless calm eyes
I drown dishevelled
Losing you
Your life, love and warmth
To stone stricken grief
Abandonment
Of a crushed paper cup world
Your soul emptying vessel
Betrays my impending enrolment
Of drafted loneliness
I line up obedient
To march heavy hearted
To a new solitary drum
Recruited to the mourning of the living dead
Simone Inez Harriman
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/drafted/
