Thursday, August 22, 2019

To Live Forever

I should have died on a Friday in November

A moment of peak joy

I should have died with you

Your arm in mine, your hand in mine

Our skeletal bodies locked together for all time

There would be no mistake

I was there, with you

With no one else but you

200 people died that day

Two were truly, madly, deeply in love

Two had shared a week of intimacy

Two had begun as intellectual friends

And ended at the height of happiness

They’ll find us

Charred and burned and ruined

Your leg around mine… our bones closer than even we had been

Smiles in the ashes

Black and in pieces, but together

Now. forever

We died to live forever together on the last day of November

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