---
title: "Always"
date: 2011-04-27
description: "She laid the coins on my eyes - cold... she did not think to warm them for the dead He removed the leaches from my whiter than white skin - do they not know I c..."
categories: ["Creative Writing"]
tags: ["poetry"]
url: /blog/always/
---

# Always

She laid the coins on my eyes
- cold... she did not think to warm
them for the dead

He removed the leaches
from my whiter than white skin
- do they not know I can feel
the flow of blood from my limbs?

She combed my hair
with a rough, horse-hair brush
- did it matter that it pulled on my scalp?

Now they have placed me into my new home: pine scented.
Scratchy cloth on my face.

It is so dark now
can she hear me as I whisper?

"Goodbye, I will love you, always."