my heart shattered with despair
knowing that behind those lenses
a world was slowly fading,
and there was nothing I could do
to have it clutch on for just another moment.
The warmth that I depended on
from your gaze, turned lifeless,
and my world faded in unison with yours,
as streams of pain tore down my face.
I hopelessly groped for a handle,
for anything to recover my falling faith.
Dolefully, a penetrating permanent void
scorched through my heart, my mind, my being,
as your breath became dense with despondency,
and mine quickened with melancholy,
the two dancing the last tango between us,
as your view softly shrank into twilight.
I stood, watching your body fall limp,
comforting you to stay with me.
I tried to be what you have always been for me,
the rock on which I rested, the smile on which I relied,
the optimism in which I believed, the happiness we shared,
I tried to be your everything, since you were everything to me.
Yet as you fell into your unforgiving slumber,
a grave frozen wind shattered my lungs,
and as I step back into the reality around us,
my heart no longer beats with beatitude,
just carelessly and without reason pulsates
to a world that lost all rhythm.
Odin, I hope that I have given you at least half of the happiness that you gave me by being in my life. I am so devastated about your early departure from the world and I am beyond heartbroken by it all. Your spirit and kindness were inspirational, and because of you I have become a better person. Rest in Peace Odes, you deserve it.
