Just you two

Alone in a room

The wooden chairs

The metal table

The dimmed lights

The half eaten Chinese food

The books neatly lined up on the shelf

You look around the room, trying to find something to distract yourself

From

Her tears

As the seemingly clear blood gushes from her eyes, you see her innocence part from her body

How on earth has the woman who you look up to the most

The one who has always stood towering over the rest of the world

Waxed into a cowering rabbit who has just seen their whole family taken from their eyes

What should you do

If your prince of a mother has lost a battle to the news of Hades, how do you still stand

Why are you not torn apart into thousands of jumbled pieces of what used to be human

Do you have no emotion

Do you have no soul

Your family

Best friend

Has just been taken hostage by the death bearing crustacean

And yet you sit there

Speechless

No words of comfort

No hug

Because you know it’s not going to be okay

Your desert of a face yearns for a day of rainfall

Even though the neighboring Amazon seems like hell on earth

With water

Comes life

But as you stare into the life filled eyes of your gutted mother

You know that there is no hope for you to truly live