Time Of Death
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