and you don’t seem to understand...
let the blood letting begin
strip the sheets from the bed
sweat soaked
bled for days and her fever wouldn't break.
oh let it be said that everyone tried their best
to drag the dream from the child
but she clutched like a sapling to the flood soaked shores
mud caked under fingernails
she cried out
and they wept at her bedside
in vain, in vain
"I don't want to see you like this..."
scream and shake her
she's not far from this world
but untouchable