Love in 100 Words

He savored her last heart beats on his palm in her final minutes of life before the sunrise. When the cancer had taken her breasts years ago, she played a prank wearing her prosthetic bra backwards for a hug, leaving them both crying with laughter. When it spread to bone and she lost hope, he became her strength, literally carrying her to their daughter’s wedding day. But now the final part of their marriage vows made thirty years ago were coming to pass. They had laughed and loved deeply til the end, and now death had come to part them.

Thank you for reading this poetic version of true events between a husband and wife, my mother and father.