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Photographs

flashing all over my mind.

Pictures of that night.

The Sensations just as vivid.

rain pouring through a Slice in the clouds

mixing with My tears

so I don't know where one ends

and the other begins.

puckering Skin.

blood vessels congregating behINd

My Blurred vision

in my ears a place that lies

between anatomical fact

and picturesque illusion.

Pictures.

I can Hear what I believe is My

withering heartbeat.

I can't hear beyond the vessels

my shallow intake

my Unintelligible, jagged Howls.

they are Not mine.

they belong to My Heart

looking like The sidewalk 

Slamming against my bare feet.

the Chill Seems To eat at my clothing.

they Merge with every follicle

and Every inch of flesh.

exhausted, hoarse, disoriented.

what am I saying?

what am I reaching after?

I can only Focus on the gravel 

punching its way Into my system

underfoot.

My Body is about to give way.

I'm Falling,

it hits me like a wall,

it knocks me back.

tear engulfed eyes,

sob racked body.

Pictures

in the night.

the last photograph.

my final memory.

What can't possibly be

you walking away

from what Can't possibly Be

Me.