At Her Bedside

I sit beside her,
monitor beeps
smother the hush.
My tears raindrops
run cold between
intertwined fingers.
Her eyes draw me closer.
I drown in the sweet sour
breeze of her breath,
ragged, then halted,
then sputtering again.
“Do you see him, the angel?”
she squeezes my hand.
“He’s bringing me home.”
It’s the blur of my weeping
that turns the walls blue,
the ache of my body
that tingles me warm.
It’s the voice in my ear
“She’s gone, let her go.”
My sleeve wipes my eyes,
a smile on her face.
A doctor is beaming,
he hands me a feather,
“I think this is yours.”
I blink, and he’s gone.

published in Agape Review