A Steaming Cup of ***

Hard breathing,
Choked back cries,
Blood streaming down a face,
A terrified face.
______________________Help.

A knife in stomach,
Hands clutching it tightly,
Wishing it to have never been there,
Desperate to turn time back.
______________________Dying.

Eyes rolling back,
Hard breathing growing softer,
Knees to the floor,
Distant pleas to keep holding on,
______________________Longer.

Reality fades away,
Blackness replacing it,
Hope a distant memory,
Death the only freedom,
_____________________Surrender.

No justice here,
Even as death succumbs,
A final thought,
Unknown to the world,
_____________________Safe.