Friday, April 07, 2006

HANGING BY A MOMENT...

MARY

Is he going to be alright?

FRANK

(not encouraging)

His heart's beating.

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FRANK

He's dead, Rose. Your father passed.

ROSE/MARY

How can that be? He was getting better.

FRANK

He coded. They shocked him one too

many times. I'm sorry.

ROSE/MARY

He was tough. You did all you could.

FRANK

I'm sorry.

ROSE/MARY

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You have to keep the body going until

the brain and heart recover enough

to go on their own.

Frank

nods.

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Desperate for changing

Starving for truth

Closer where i Started

Chasing after you

forgetting all i'm lacking

completely incomplete

i'll take your invitation

you take all of me

i'm living for the only thing i know

i'm running and not quite sure where to go

i don't know what i'm diving into

just hanging by a moment here with you

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FRANK

In the last year I had come to believe

in such things as spirits leaving

the body and not wanting to be put

back, spirits angry at the awkward

places death had left them. I

understood how crazy it was to think

this way, but I was convinced if I

turned around, I'd see Old Man Burke

standing at the window, watching,

waiting for us to finish.

==BRINGING OUT THE DEAD==

2 comments:

roman said...

We are just here temporarily. No one survives life.
Thank you for this solemn but very natural fact of our existence.
It makes us appreciate every breath we take that much more.
Peace be with you, Sara.

sara said...

Peace be with you too brother Roman...Amen.