By Jubal
Submitted by Jubal29717
Date: 2003 Mar 03
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Room 315

Room 315

Time is suspended in the dim hush of the room

Amidst the sighs, clicks, and whirrs of the machines

Tethering you to this plane and to me.

Room 315...my agonizing Gethsemane

Where I have waited and prayed

But now I realize that it is time.

First I trace the contours of you face.

A simple caress, repeated so many times

During the years hones the slivers of awareness

That no feat of engineering

Can bridge the chasm

That soon is to separate us.

It is time.

One by one the clicks, whirrs, and sighs

descend into solemn silence

And the minutes pass into a lifetime without you.