We The Void

C.P.R ON A DEAD BODY

For some time now I've been performing CPR on a dead body.

The pale looking, lifeless body, cold against my hand. "Let me go!" these are the words that I keep hearing as If the lifeless being is trying to talk to me. "Find peace," the words come to me again and this time I do not know if It wants me to find peace by letting it go or It wants to find peace by being let go of. Either way, I was not listening.

I am still performing CPR on the dead body, there isn't much left and all this time I have lost track of why I want to revive what is dead. At first, the desire to bring the body back to life was my purpose but now I am just afraid of letting go.

I am tired of performing CPR on this dead body, but I have forgotten how to live without it.
Today I have decided to stop performing CPR on the dead body, I could not bear the stench, the body was decomposing and mine was tired aswell.

Today I'm burying this dead body, with a bouquet of flowers, I am saying bye to the obsession of trying to bring back what is already gone.

-Lydia Banda