<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">His Last Breath</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">I was out with friends,</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">I came back home a few moments too late</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">to catch his last breath,</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">so I found my lifelong love</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">in a filial embrace</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">floating on a cloud of candles and flowers</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">wrapped in daughterly silence </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">and I attempted to join him</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">on his flight</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">while his last breath still hung </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font color="#000000">in mid-air </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font color="#000000">but I stood frozen, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font color="#000000">appalled at my negligence,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font color="#000000">my sorrow slowly dissolving</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">in the distance he kept </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">from the things of this world and its people</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">as for months</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">he kept attempting to give out</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">that </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">last </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">breath.</p></div></body></html>