You Looked So Beautiful

You Looked So Beautiful

You looked so beautiful the day you died.
Your cheeks were rosy,
Your smile so bright
That anyone who saw it couldn’t doubt
That all must be right in the world.
And yet there was so much that wasn’t.
Your eyes shone – wet, gleaming,
Reflecting my own face back at me
As you danced in the morning dew.
Dear child, would could have known
That your laugh would ever fade?
Passerby stopped to stare
At your still form in the grass,
As we labored to breathe life back into you.
Your eyes were lifeless the,
No longer dancing in the fading light.
Something was already missing within you,
Yet you’d been drifting from us for awhile,
Parts of you slipping away, unnoticed:
A misplaced laugh,
A sudden stupor like a light switch
Being flipped inside your brain.
They said you weren’t there
But I know you never left us,
Not even as we pressed your chest
Hoping, beyond all hope,
that it might rise and fall on its own again.
DOA they said
As tears slipped down my cheeks
And fell onto your faded ones.
DOA.
You looked so beautiful the day you died.
But on that day,
My heart died with you.