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The Crow
He lies on his death bed;
A crow soars through the expanses of his mind;
His friends and family are around waiting for the time they know to be soon;
The crow takes him to different memories, free to venture where it pleases.
He muses that no matter who you have with you, you always die alone;
The crow takes him back to when he was little playing under the house with toy soldiers;
He tells his friends not to worry, that the crow will take care of him and then the pain will be gone;
The crow takes him to when he would go fishing with his father, when he was still young and innocent.
He doesn’t seem to feel the pain anymore, now just a dull thud;
The crow glistens in the moon of his mind as it takes him to when his grandfather died, him not knowing what death was, just that he should be sad;
He feels something warm flow along his ever-cold arm;
The crow then shows him the night he met his first true love, he with a strange feeling in his stomach that he did not know, just that she was someone special.
His mother took his hand and said that help was on its way;
The crow takes him to a building site, where he sees himself drinking for the first time with friends;
Its getting dark now, he can hear someone crying in another place and the faint sound of sirens in the distance;
The crow shows him when he finished school when he was happy with his friends, all the time realising he was now an adult.
He tries to move, roll over or get up but cant, he feels like he is staked or stuck somehow;
He now sees when he spent easter with a lover, the only happy week they ever had together;
He can only see silhouettes now but this doesn’t bother him, he wants to see what the crow has left to show;
He now sees his friends and all the times they shared together, drinking, swimming, holidaying, talking, all the greatest moments he has ever had.
He feels himself being lifted by burning hot hands as the touch his cold pasty skin;
The crow shows him his friend waiting for him on the other side, ready to show him what death really means;
He is taken outside to a waiting van, he looks in to the sky and sees a crow fly past, then closes his eyes for the last time;
The crow is there ready to take him over, to the start of a whole new set of adventures.
MARVIN DRAKE 2005
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