You knew your breaths were growing short,

But you kept your mouth shut,

Only allowing air

To slip between 

The spaces in your teeth.

You suffocated in silence.

Long labored breaths 

Grew shorter.

Your lungs begged

For the taste of oxygen.

But you refused

Because in that moment

You forgot about me.

You forgot that if your breath did cease

That I would be left

Inhaling for every moment

That I'll miss you

And exhaling for every moment 

You won't be there to kiss it better.

I never got to hold your hand

The night you closed your lips.

I was never able

To plead with your body

For one more day.

I loved you.

But in that monent,

You forgot about me.