• I walk through the saddened room
    Then rest my back to the wall
    Watching my sister in the bed
    watching her chest rise and fall

    Mother sits beside the bed
    Crying for the umpteenth time
    Father stands in the hall
    searching for nerves he can't seem to find

    Sister lies in a bed
    Her movement is no more
    Her life seems to slowly ebb
    Out her body's open door

    I walk by her empty room
    And smell her perfume's stale scent
    HEr walls so vibrant
    Or so plain?
    Nothing touched since the day she left

    Mother sits at the table
    Her breakfast has been neglected
    WHile father stares at the phone
    His manner so dejected

    Sister lies in a bed
    Dreaming, I hope, of me
    OF her family and her life
    keeping the strength she needs

    I sit in my darkened room
    While reflecting on dreams that passed
    OF her smiles and her care
    Of the times she was there
    Of memories in the past

    Mother lies in her bed
    Her face so closed and blank
    Father cries in the bathroom
    Hoping we wont hear a thing

    Sister lies in a bed
    Her heart cannot go on
    She gives one final gasp of breath
    And ends her strangled song

    I watch the rain drip down the window
    Waiting for the doctor to arrive
    I hear him stepping down the hall
    I woefully close my eyes

    Mother stares at him with hope
    But life is not that fair
    Father knows what the doctor does
    And cries out in dispair

    Sister is covered with a sheet
    A blanket to hide her lifeless eyes
    And taken far away from me
    leaving us all asking why

    I see the birds fly in the sky
    As the preacher reads the words
    I remember all she was
    And forget his final verse

    Mother sits beside my dad
    Sqeazing his hand in pain
    Father sits beside my mom
    His hopes were all in vain

    A coffin is givin to the earth
    While the sky is awarded a soul
    A sister, a daughter, a caring friend
    She worked her love on us all