A letter about my options, to me
5 ways you could die
You could die at once
Or maybe you will vaporize
Into loss, like a spluttering
Apology, just a bookmark
Of your usual daily self
Option 1
You could die
Shot in the head
With no time for thoughts
Admittedly no formality
Fuck you, your last words
Bloody hell this is happening
Option 2
You could die
Announced across miles
Remembered in both homes
In submission to homesickness
where birthed, seeded, found
where burned, dispersed, practiced
Option 3
You could die
In dilation to cancer
Tricked into emptiness
Swallowed deep into pain
Dangling formality of skin shards
Chronic wreckage of complications
Option 4
You could die
A constant full stop
Weightless into sleep
Incrementally be less
You just a hiccup of me
Apologetic to my Alzheimer’s
Option 5
You could die
By a heart in arrest
You want to embrace
Just like he felt, that day
you will your sinews to drench
into his last moments, ending
finally
you will walk
into the doorway
of closure
of certainty
®️©️kashiana
The Significant League
Prompt 21 – thirdmonthofprompts
Each option seems todepict the physical enviorment at the time of death eg shot in the head is followed by the s3elected abuse cancer death swallows one into deep pain and the heart arrest you want to embrace are very mature yet
Soul stirring images .
Every option moves the reader deeply
Highly emotional at times intensity of expression wrenches
Your heart
Love you
Papa
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