Good memories can’t start 

Appearing until after someone is dead

Yet we sit there and fight

to keep them alive 

when we know it would be better to let them go

because in our most desperate hours

we become selfish and fight for

what we desire because it’ll mean 

we can see that person again but then

we realize that person is suffering 

they don’t enjoy living anymore 

no they’d rather pass on and be 

free from the aching in their body 

and the restlessness they feel because 

they are always gasping for air and when 

they finally pass it is painful but we realize

they are in a better place and 

no longer suffering