Blood

A slow patter

The echo filling the hollowed brain

Crimson red on ivory white

Bleeding to know I’m alive

A slow, stuttered heartrate

Heartbreak

Pain

Loneliness

Cascading and dispensing on to the cool water

Pooling around tile crevices

My lifeline

Draining

Drawing away

The heart slowing the lungs

Closed eyes

And deep breaths

The last breaths

Bleeding to know I’m alive

Only to die