It is so much easier to dance now.
To simply, literally, let the music carry me.
To not be restricted by physical limitations any longer.
If only I had danced like this in life.
Oh, they had praised me like a god,
But my heart did not truly partake of it.
The regrets I have are innumerable,
The things I wish I could change are of infinite number.
If not for my sake, then for yours.
I watched the lights fade, helplessly,
Gasping for breath, clutching desperately at reality as it trickled away from me.
Caught between two jealous lovers, I was asphyxiated by their rage.
Unintentionally, life was snatched from my chest.
Rightfully so, for it should have been I.
It was all my fault.
Did they think this had been easy for me?
That I had meant to cause them so much pain?
Fate was not under my control.
And so I gave my life, that the men I loved might continue theirs.
But alas, no.
Each blaming the other for my untimely passing, they fought yet again.
This time, without my sacrifice, Sleep found its mark.
Yet I do not think his enabler realized that his victim would rest, forevermore, with me.
In sleep, we watch as he tries to justify his deadly actions,
The actions that placed me and his rival in each other’s arms for eternity.
Looking down with ill-humored irony,
Together,
Forever,
As one, in an endless sleep.