She prepares for sleep
She closes her eyes
And sees her life flashing
The first time her father swung her around
When she got her puppy at the pound
When she started school
Her first play audition
She remembered all the laughs
All the tears
All the anger
And all the joy
As she prepared for her sleep
Her eyes closed
She wondered if she would
make the memories keep going
She saw into her future
What it would be like
She liked what she saw
But it also made her afraid
She saw her graduation
both from high school and college
She saw her proposal
And she saw her marriage
She saw her be told she was pregnant
She saw them saying she lost the baby
She saw another pregnancy
And a baby boy named Luis
She saw him graduate
And saw his marriage
And his death
Way before hers
She saw her husband's death
Way too many tears shed throughout the years
As her breathing stopped from old age
A smiled formed on her lips
She came back to the present
But still she dove in to her sleep
And the memories all stopped
And everything went black
She would never wake again.
