Haunted

I'm dying I'm dying I'm dying
Those words will always haunt me
They were her goodbye
To us
To her time on Earth
And even now
I keep going back to that moment
When each minute seemed to stretch
Like elastic
And when
Nothing we did was enough
And she didn't stay
And she couldn't be stopped
So even before
They took her body away
Out of our home
An emptiness had settled in
And that emptiness would
Haunt me
Haunt us, though we never spoke about it,
Just like those words
I'm dying I'm dying I'm dying