Her True Destiny

What my friends sentenced death has taught me.

I stopped crying

I only went numb

Until I got the message

That her life was almost done

She is so young

And still so full of life

Yet here she is at deaths door

And there is no turning back

I cried for her

and I cried for me

Until I saw 

Her bright white teeth

She still laughed

And joked around 

Her life still seemed the same

As if nothing had changed

I realized then

How death is only what we think

This was her way of peace

Not a doomed destiny

She wanted to remember the days

Of jokes and childish plays

She wanted to know I'd be there

To walk her the rest of the way

She is always going to live

Only just though me

Because she has made me who I am

And that was her destiny  

Reviews

[JC]

a wonderful look at mortality and how we can look at it differently, away from sadness and towards joy.