How will i tell him,

the love of his life

has passed?

He had trusted me with her life,

and i thought that i could save her,

now i must tell this man that his wife of 31 years is now gone

i can see him in her old room waiting

for good news

and i’m about to tell him that his wife is gone

that i couldn’t save her

there will be nothing more to be said

other that she’s gone,

I hobble slowly towards his room

i open the door slowly

he stands up so fast that it looks like he had teleported in the blink of an eye

he looked at me with hopeful yet pleading eyes

when i didn’t smile back at him

i saw the hope the light

leave his eyes

“Your wife passed away during surgery”

A quiet sob escaped his mouth

“her time of death 16:22”

seeing him is such agony, in such dispar

made my legs want to give up

he looked up at me suddenly with a blank stare

“You said this would save her, you said that you wouldn’t let her die. I thought i could trust you!”

I broke

“Sir i-we did everything that we could to save her we couldn’t bring her back, there was nothing more that we could’ve done. I’m very sorry for your loss.”

He started sobbing again

uncontrollably i started to walk over to him

he put a hand up

his warning for me to stay back

i shouldn’t have made him trust me

i shouldn’t have thought i could save her

those last beeps, her last breath

he didn’t even get to say goodbye