Purest Prayer

Eyelids clinched like fists holding back tears Beads of sweat stream through a wrinkled forehead Pursed lips against trembling teeth Ears def to the sirens Straining to hear an answer To your purest prayer “Oh God, don't let her go I'd give up my eternity To give her just one more night For one more dream God take the very beat of my heart And pull her back from heaven's gates Lord I'd make this my last breath To see her chest rise again” In the silence you sit With her clutched against your chest Trying to press the rhythm of your heart into hers Her soft exhale brings you back Finally you open flooded eyes Gently cradled in your arms she looks at you Blue eyes once filled with heaven's light Now turned to gray glass reflecting your desperate stare