A Grey Woman

I knew this woman who had a sikness trapped inside her,
Like poison it grew, infesting and eating away at her heart,
She turned grey, shrivelling up inside herself,
Grey wisps of hair that were barely there, grey eyes that stared right through me,
A grey woman with sharp edges like glass
And I could only watch her with a silence that clutched my chest,
This woman had once been my aunt who danced and sang and taught me how to jump waves at the beach,
Now she was the one who had to jump her own wave, and if she wasn't strong enough it would knock her down,
I remember it was summertime then, and yet why did the room feel as empty as winter?
And so I opened some windows but even the sunlight wasn't enough to kiss the life back to her cheeks,
The stars in her eyes had faded long ago,
"But Aunty why are your eyes so big when tne rest of your body is so skinny?"
I wanted to ask her. Because she looked like an alien in that sun-filled bedroom of hers, the four walls mocking her as she lay on that bed, crying out things that would never be understood,
And so her deathbed shackled her like a prisoner to the sickness,
She suffocated every day
Until her last breath left her grey lips,
And her hands grew cold by her hips.

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