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Mary
<p><em>Long hallway</em></p><p><em>Low light</em></p><p><em>Late afternoon</em></p><p><em>Holding its breath</em></p><p><em>Too tight</em></p><p><em>Machines murmured</em></p><p><em>Monitors moaned</em></p><p><em>Metal and motion</em></p><p><em>Softly groaned</em></p><p><em>Footsteps fading</em></p><p><em>Tile to tile</em></p><p><em>Hope hanging</em></p><p><em>Just a while</em></p><p><em>I knew</em></p><p><em>Before the door</em></p><p><em>Before the sound</em></p><p><em>Of careful shoes</em></p><p><em>Across the floor</em></p><p><em>Morning had whispered</em></p><p><em>Cold and thin</em></p><p><em>A quiet warning</em></p><p><em>Under my skin</em></p><p><em>She was the hope</em></p><p><em>The house’s flame</em></p><p><em>The one we spoke of</em></p><p><em>With brighter names</em></p><p><em>The light at dinner</em></p><p><em>The laugh in rooms</em></p><p><em>The voice that scattered</em></p><p><em>Silent gloom</em></p><p><em>But life arrived</em></p><p><em>Sooner than planned</em></p><p><em>A child growing</em></p><p><em>In gentle hands</em></p><p><em>Yet hands that should</em></p><p><em>Have held her near</em></p><p><em>Turned hard</em></p><p><em>With anger</em></p><p><em>Heavy and severe</em></p><p><em>Storm struck softly</em></p><p><em>Then struck again</em></p><p><em>Bruises blooming</em></p><p><em>Where peace had been</em></p><p><em>Still she carried</em></p><p><em>Still she stayed</em></p><p><em>Still she guarded</em></p><p><em>The life she made</em></p><p><em>Night stretched long</em></p><p><em>Morning slow</em></p><p><em>Time dissolving</em></p><p><em>Row by row</em></p><p><em>Then a cry</em></p><p><em>Then quiet</em></p><p><em>Then hours wide</em></p><p><em>Where clocks forget</em></p><p><em>How to decide</em></p><p><em>I sat</em></p><p><em>Counting breaths</em></p><p><em>Like fragile glass</em></p><p><em>Waiting for futures</em></p><p><em>To finally pass</em></p><p><em>And when they came</em></p><p><em>White coats</em></p><p><em>Still eyes</em></p><p><em>Voices careful</em></p><p><em>Measuring sighs</em></p><p><em>I knew already</em></p><p><em>What they would say</em></p><p><em>Some endings arrive</em></p><p><em>Long before the day</em></p><p><em>Words fell softly</em></p><p><em>But broke the room</em></p><p><em>Mother lives</em></p><p><em>But she is gone</em></p><p><em>The hallway widened</em></p><p><em>Air went thin</em></p><p><em>Something silent</em></p><p><em>Collapsed within</em></p><p><em>Because sometimes</em></p><p><em>The world gives light</em></p><p><em>Just long enough</em></p><p><em>To prove</em></p><p><em>How bright</em></p><p><em>A life can be</em></p><p><em>Before the night.</em></p><p><em><br/></em></p><p><br/></p>
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