breaths slip out of raspberry stained lips
on a screened-in country porch
some wasted forever, some fate-kissed
as the photographs singe and fade
like the words we etch in sunsets
in the life that follows this
we'll reclaim those blessed sentences
and they will light the sky
unending amber glow
the pain that breaks us here
will glorify
with each breath
i sink fast
into death
and i breathe
