I know it when all of a sudden your face turns as creased and pale as ash.

I know it when blood spirts from your abdomen.

I know when you crumple and you lay limp.

I know when you scream

And scream

And scream

And at some point I wonder if I will ever get the sound out of my mind

I won’t.

So when I reach you

When I fall to the ground,

With tears already blurring my vision

I already know

I KNOW

I can’t save you

Not with all the magic in the world.

That doesn’t stop me from trying though.

And as the magic courses through me

it burns

I revel in it

hoping for any relief from the hole already cracking through me

The grass around you shimmers and grows

flowers of all colors poke out of the ground

in a ring around your body

a circle of life

surrounding the dead

I push harder

The sun burns

the birds are screeching

the wind howls

I scream

And shriek

COME BACK

PLEASE

COME BACK

But you

you stay still

Around you is beauty of all kinds imaginable

but you won’t see it

ever again

I still visit you

The magic in the ground not allowing you to rot

to decay

The world around you is frozen

beautiful

perfect

like you

you look peaceful

It’s been years now

I’ve never left your side

It’s beautiful here