The Road between life and death

Looking back at those years,
How can I ever forget those great moments?
It wasn’t those moments when we use to kiss,
But rather those when we use to feel the total bliss.

Where did it all suddenly disappear?
You told that you were just going to the store across the road.
You never mentioned a word
About the road being the barrier between life and death.

Had I stopped you, you would have lived.
We would have still existed.
We would have been happy,
We would have been together.

But then I wasn’t listening.
We just laughed at a joke I cracked
And then you grabbed your purse
And left the apartment.

Did I ever not know that you were not coming back?
I wish you had never left my side.
Even if you had to, I wish we at least a chance to say goodbye
I wish that time just had frozen, never to begin again.

I didn’t see a thing,
Am I thankful for that?
The thought of watching that truck coming and hit you
Was more painful than being stabbed with red-hot iron.

Screams had filled the air
Yet long before that I felt something slipping away
I knew it was something really precious
It was only later I realized it was your life.

I ran downstairs
Open the door to let the light of truth hit me
It hit me right at my core, it hit me exactly where I held you
It hit me at my heart.

Right in front of me, you were lying
Surrounded by many people
It wasn’t odd that you attracted people, you are beautiful, it’s true
But this time it was because you were ………

There you were gasping your last breath
I held you in my arms tightly
Yet you were slipping away,

It was almost like when one tries to hold on to water,
The more one forms a fist,
The more water slipped away
You were my water and I was a thirsty traveler in this desert of death.

You looked at me one last time and tried saying “I love you”.
All you said was “I….you” yet I understood you.
You closed your eyes and I knew
You were crossing the road, the road between life and death.

That night I sang for the first time
I recited the song “Never gone” by BSB even in my sleep
You shall always be in my heart
And when I meet you on the other side of that road, I’ll say
“I knew that you’d be waiting for me”

By Saad ,
21st June 2008