The Final Embrace

And he tried holding her in a tight embrace –

With a hope, hold on the remnants of his shattered heart,

For a moment time paused, but his mind raced ahead,

To a life, lonesome and deathless, he thought;

Lightning pierced through his body, the sky roared,

He wanted to scream out the pain, but numbness triumphed,

The rains poured down heavily, paving an imprint on his eyes,

And he falls on his knees, lost and dismantled, the embrace broke,

A thousand deaths he died the moment she left, a lonely soul again,

He craved for calmness, an easier death, burdened by the unending pain.

And as she walked ahead, leaving him behind, shattered –

She couldn’t say the words of her broken soul

For she cried inside her heart, a pain unseen,

The rain shading her tears, a perfect cover of the endless struggle,

A promise she made to her kin, a life away from him,

An end to what she started and nothing could wash away her sins,

The final embrace she desired to last forever, a part of her share,

Unyielding to the bleak figure left behind, she wiped her tears dry,

And deathless she walked, wishing for an easier way to die,

For in the murmur of the winds, she whispered her final goodbye.