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by Eric Lies

By Your Bedside

Daylight slips in through half opened curtains,
revealing shadows that play across my face:
those mirrored within.
How long must this go on,
until I...

The moments pass with graveyard stillness,
old smiles fade away.
So long I've stood by your bedside,
there are no more tears.
Watching as your heart stops.
Then starts beating once again.
It's like God's form of torture:
keeping you from the dead.

It's been so long,
can I remember how to cry?
As I watch the lonely mirror
perched at my bedside.
I'm just waiting, laying in anguish,
for the blissful, sorry end.
Just waiting for the pain to stop.
Just waiting for the end.

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