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Orange

from Eulogy by Before Stories

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I see the orange spots on trees
The effects they have on me
Like a corpse cosplaying the living
waiting to be taken away
How monklands hospital treated your case
They didn't see an active independent woman
They never knew you loved Arts and ran marathons
They saw you as an expense best to mark already dead
Orange spray paint stained on your forehead
The longer you live now that you're ill the more it costs to them so they made up thier minds before you even knew that you were losing time. They made you terminal they slept through every stage and we'd be made out to be criminals if we tried to make them pay.

Dr Anderson I hope one day you sneer at the wrong family's mum a family braver than me.
I hope you're the one and i quote "taking up a bed" and although you know the treatment the doctors ignore you with a tilt of the head I hope you Live in pain and limbo for eternity forever ignored pleas Zero dignity


As that hourglass sand continues to pass I often think of the cliche life advice to live every day like it's your last. Here she is living her final moments In the same way she did every other day. In this case is she completely ignoring this advice as it assumes we all want to go sky dive and swim with sharks travel the world go experience extremes all at once but actually, within the comforts of her four walls drinking tea watching TV and exploring arts is her choice all along for her now knowing these days are her last within perspective shes been following this advice all along. And I respect it
She doesn't need to worry for the moments she'll miss an empty top table seat her room close by the bridal suite those hopes have gone and we take it just a day at a time. She thought she was certain to die at any moment a few days past and we scrambled over to see her just for the doctor to say she's got time yet. Yet again, orange gleaming from her cheeks she surpasses what the doctors believe. Faded orange somehow She knew that day was the last time she would see us awake, I listened to the doctors over her and that is my mistake I remember her tearing up and waving goodbye as I left the room blind to the final straw about to make the break.
In disbelief to the reality that time only takes

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from Eulogy, released September 1, 2023

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