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The Grim Awakening
I wake up early each morning
And lie in bed listening to the birds chirp
Until their notes give way to the sounds of traffic
I make my way down the wooden stairs
Girding myself for the coming day
Stepping over the cat curled at the bottom
The porch swing creaks under my weight
I sit, inhaling the steam from my tea
Breathing in the scent of the living
I recall the day unfailingly
Vines grew up around me then
Binding my limbs and choking me
I had known the the end was near
I could see it in your pallid expression
The slow decline of your vitality
In that moment I sat on this very porch
Wishing for a quiet end to this misery
Bleary eyed and ragged from waiting
The most petrifying part of all
Ever since the earth reclaimed you
The chains lighten with the dawn of each morning
I listen to the waking world, terrified of losing you twice
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