She lifts him up, holds him tight,
and keeps him warm, daylight fading,
the cold advancing to this moment.
She kisses him as morphine flows,
before complying with doctor's orders
to remove him from equipment.
The stars come out in the autumn sky
to be her witnesses when the nurse
pulls away the tubes from him.
Thoughts of another morning make her cry.
The clouds came like a blanket over him,
the cold completing its embrace.
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