If she could talk, this would be her last words before she was gone. This would be her monologue.

my body's changing I can tell, I can feel it, helpless I know dark pages are ahead no, I refuse to end this chapter now just let me read this book longer will you stay with me, read to me let me fall asleep to your voice let's take a picture, it's been a while no, not full body, just the face don't worry, I'll smile for us both please don't smile, can't handle it now it's your eyes, they smile too I don't have much more to say don't have anything to give you what else to leave, everything breaks I'll leave our sweet youthful times when we never talk or think about departing it's dark ahead, I see it why are you lighting a candle? yes, I'm scared too, but let's use flashlights they last longer
#NaPoWriMo2021 – Day 8, and here is the prompt below, best explained when directly copied from the original instruction:
And last but not least, our (optional) prompt. I call this one “Return to Spoon River,” after Edgar Lee Masters’ eminently creepy 1915 book Spoon River Anthology. The book consists of well over 100 poetic monologues, each spoken by a person buried in the cemetery of the fictional town of Spoon River, Illinois.
Today, I’d like to challenge you to read a few of the poems from Spoon River Anthology, and then write your own poem in the form of a monologue delivered by someone who is dead. Not a famous person, necessarily – perhaps a remembered acquaintance from your childhood, like the gentleman who ran the shoeshine stand, or one of your grandmother’s bingo buddies. As with Masters’ poems, the monologue doesn’t have to be a recounting of the person’s whole life, but could be a fictional remembering of some important moment, or statement of purpose or philosophy. Be as dramatic as you like – Masters’ certainly didn’t shy away from high emotion in writing his poems.
The poem above is for a dear friend of mine. In 4 more days, it’ll be 9 years since her passing. This is for you, sis.
Moving poem–so sorry for your loss.💜
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This is so well-written! Thank you so much for a beautiful poem!
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Thank you very much, Astrid.
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