I love you

A glittering blackness fills my eyes as I awake to the thoughts of better days.

As trumpets sound in the streets and songs for the fallen resonate through them.

I look out my window at the snow and the lights, as stars fill the skies.

And I realize that this is the birth and death of a day.

My eyes fill with tears, at the thought of the end of a shimmering night.

The world turns blurred, and the freezing wind tears across the land.

People pull their coat close, and some look into the air, at the fireworks of lives passed.

I take your hand in mine, and pull us onto the ice.

Lights and sounds swirl through the city…This is magic hour.

Time stands still, and this moment lasts forever.

Then shatters like a glass house.

Broken families, broken homes, broken lives.

Celebrated, mourned, and missed.

It takes six days at the bottom of the ocean, to show us what we miss the most.

But six days too late, and what we miss is gone.

Life, light, love, redemption.

These are the first breathes after coma.

We write down our thoughts, hopes and dreams.

Open our minds to one another, Beams of hope fill our thoughts.

We step out into a dangerous world, together we step out into a world of dread.

That’s when I discovered, that all our plans, where just prayers to father time.

We spent our years on borrowed time.

And wasted it.

I lay on the hospital bed, each peep on the LCD, brought tears to me.

Your eyes locked on mine, all the times we had flashing through my mind.

But through it all, fighting a battle I had lost before it began.

Against an enemy that we all feared, but could not hide from.

My mind slipping away, as my heart unraveled to you.

Our lips for one last time met, as the life left me, and the tears left you.

I watched as, you cried and held me close, our final moment alone.

The only moment we were alone.

You find the note I left you clenched in my hand.

My final words to you,

You unfold it, and read….

“I Love You”

Dale innes Wylde Hughes ©