Lifeless

First to go are the clothes
Exposing rough skin
Dry and swollen
Bruised and calloused
Cracking
Dried blood on the surface
Avoided

Skin peels back to rotting flesh
Lifeless
There’s no blood in this body
Cold
Damp
Open

Cut through flesh
Find heart
Not beating
Not dreaming
Not believing
Lifeless
Lungs breathless
No air
No deliverance
Collapsed
Eyes
Dilated
Still searching
Still desiring
Still hopeful
Still

Pick through the rubble
Find hollow bones
Fragile
Forgotten
Weak
Broken

Autopsy report reads…
Reason for death: LOVELESS. No further information is available....