Your last breath <br />Held mine ransomed <br />Cradled in my arms <br />I watch life slip <br />From our together world <br />Towards your single belief <br />Of life elsewhere <br />Helpless in your fathomless calm eyes <br />I drown dishevelled <br />Losing you <br />Your life, love and warmth <br />To stone stricken grief <br />Abandonment <br />Of a crushed paper cup world <br />Your soul emptying vessel <br />Betrays my impending enrolment <br />Of drafted loneliness <br />I line up obedient <br />To march heavy hearted <br />To a new solitary drum <br />Recruited to the mourning of the living dead<br /><br />Simone Inez Harriman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/drafted/
