LEAVING<\/strong>
\nWord Count: 101<\/p>\n

I held your hand as if that could keep you from leaving. As if that\u2019s all it would take.<\/p>\n

Even as I spoke the words, \u201che is with God,\u201d I knew you were nowhere at all.<\/p>\n

No bigger transition than your heart still and silent. No rise and fall of your chest while the rest of you simply looked sleeping; the visual remnants of death.<\/p>\n

Already your last breath a memory. The last thump of your heart lost in time. And only a second between them; now two, now three, now forever.<\/p>\n

For you it was just that easy to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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