Alone in the hospital bed waiting for death.
Counting the last days, counting the last breaths.
A morbid numbness crawls from the skin down to the soul.
As myriads of stories and feelings remain untold.
We have a handful of people that we call our own.
But when death comes we have to face it alone.

A wish to see them for the last time remained unfulfilled as the life faded away.
Where were...