Echoes in White

White, blinding, suffocating, too close, too close! She is shrinking, surely,or else the walls have grown She cannot bear to go into the room She knows what she will find WIRES BEEPING TUBES THE MASK a fading husk so small in the sheets IT CAN'T BE! IT ISN'T HER! She flees , dashing as the others shout WAIT COME BACK IT'S OKAY COME BACK COME BACK but she can't. The echoes chase her weapons ready to stab her breaking heart She collapses dissolves in tears gives in to her greatest fears A voice above her the echo repeats Sorry, dear, her heart has had it's final beat. GONE! HER MOTHER, SO ALIVE! GONE! IS HEAVEN SATISFIED? And yet she sees her mother still there are some things you cannot kill.