By AJ
Date: 2004 May 23
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Death's Ladder

The last thing you said to me
tore my heart into pieces;
For you held my heart in your hands
only to drop it into feces.

I look at a picture of us
when we were at our happiest,
an unquivering love in our hearts
and big smiles on our faces.

Our love was so pure
like the innocence of a newborn,
now forever lost and destroyed
in the confusions of war.

There's a picture of us crying
on the day I had to leave,
not even knowing that we'd change
to never smile or to be.

Yet what hurts most of all
is what you last said,
"Rest in peace, Andrew,
to me you never made it back."

So now I close my eyes
and hold my breath
to wait for the angels
as they take me to my death.