• Cold lifeless eyes gazed into mine; once sparkling youthful eyes, now cold, haunting, emotionless blue. What had happened to you?
    What had this world done to make you so hard and void of life? You just stood there looking at me, no words said between us. I wanted to run across the room and hold you; to tell you that whatever was wrong would work out. That I was here for you, I always had been. Time seemed to have stood still, but then you spoke, it was a simply “Hi”. Your voice had changed-once a soft voice now hard and cold like steel. What had this world done? We stood there talking for what seemed like hours before I worked up the nerve to ask you what was wrong, I wish I had not, for I heard the word I never wished to-cancer. The next thing I knew were your lips on mine. The rest of the night a blur of passion, and the words I love you, whispered again and again. We held each other close as the sun came up, whispering to each other sweet nothings. I badly wanted to ask how long you had left but at that time of romance it seemed pointless. The next weeks were spent in a passion, romantic haze. I had never been so happy. No, WE had never been so happy. Our joy was short lived though. The doctors called you one day and gave you 3 month to live. I held you close as you cried, I tried to be strong but I could not. We sat there crying for what seemed days. Later, the doctor said something about an operation, but the chance of living was slim. One slim chance at us being together. You took it without question saying you would rather die fighting then do nothing at all. I sat at home the day of the operation waiting for a call, but in my heart I knew it would be a tear filled call that you had not made it. When a call finally came I was nearly in tears at answering, knowing you had died. When the nurse said you had made it, I could not believe it, but then came the news, the worst news of my life. The operation had failed, you had lived throw it only to still be on death’s door. But now that door had opened wider and you were nearly through it. I ran to you that night my lungs burned, my legs felt like they were on fire, but when I got to you, you just smiled and asked what was wrong.
    Our song was playing as they lowered the coffin. No words would ever say how much I would miss you, or how much you meant to me. As you lay dying in the hospital nothing in the world other than me and you mattered. The slow beep of your heart monitor lulling you to sleep; it would be the end for you, the longest sleep of your life-death. For me, sleep never came that night; even through the lulling bleep my brain stayed awake. To hold you as you passed away. Tears fell freely from my eyes as your heart slowed to nothing. I was watching now as they filled the hole were you lay, where one day I would lay next to you. Our souls joined in death, our love echoing on the sands of time.
    For love never dies. Only grows stronger with time and one day we would have all the time in the world. Together forever, in peaceful death.