I saw you finally sleeping and left you in your peaceful repose while you were dreaming
I was finding it harder and harder to calm my breathing
And it was eating me alive while I stood outside, freezing
As your lips paled, every breath I inhaled was nothing more than another that I was releasing
Every word I read made my head spin
I felt the warmth leave your skin
I felt you wearing thin as the pulse escaped your body
And caught within the woven strands that hung above the bed
While the dread hung above my head
All I said was nothing
I wish I had
I grasped for the numbness as I glanced into the bottom of the bottle
Thinking how you did the same awful thing
Staring at the autumn leaves
Unaware of the sorrow that you'd leave behind
When you took your own life, you also took mine