Death sucks

Big time.  Really a lot.  I mean, HOLY CRAP does death suck!  You think you’re doing okay until the deathiversary happens.  That day bitch slaps you every time.  Four years gone and your heart ruptures all over again – an explosion of cardiac tissue splattering your rib cage and spine.

You struggle for breath. A sip of air dragged into your red-covered lungs.  How is it that you can still breathe without a heart?  Cling to a memory – one of the good ones – where you were laughing together, being silly.  That split-second of joy chased away by anger and sadness and pain.  The hurt.  Not as bad as when you first found out, not as bad as that first fortnight staggering through life without her in the world, but those waves of pain tearing through you, in the now, have you teetering on the edge of nausea.

And even though you know she wouldn’t want you to wallow in it – to drown in that pain – you think you’re entitled.  Just for today.  For today you will rage against the fucking senseless loss of her.  You can remember the good tomorrow.  But today, the anniversary of her death, you’re going to wail, you’re going to scream, you’re going to pray for the calm to eventually return.  Tomorrow, you’ll smile when you think of her, but today… today you’re fucking decimated.

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