It Was You (an original poem written for an assignment)

A scream, a crash,
Fleeting footsteps.
My heart is pounding in my
Ears.
Shallow breaths
No air to the lungs.
Shivering,
No,
Shaking.
A new feeling.
A new fear.
A door opens as my eyes flash open as well.
Dark footsteps follow, scanning the once crowded room
I am alone.
Alone with my screaming veins,
My splitting lungs,
My ominus fear.

The valley is green and calm.
Skin sparking as the sun reaches my body,
Warm breezes whip at my legs and sing happy songs,
“We shall follow with you always
As though we are all one together
As God and the earth and the moon and the stars
We shall be together always.”
I brush a stray hair from my eyes as the wind suddenly stops.
All is quiet as I search your familiar face for signs of its usual innocence.
You stare back at me as though we have never met. Too far,
Too far we are from where we were.
A sudden helplessness jerks at my hand,
But I continue to search you.
It must be you.
A darkness comes over,
Your eyes.

The footsteps stop.
A sickening smell causes a
Tear,
To trickle so slowly,
Afraid to hit the ground.
I turn to face the darkness.
That same darkness,
I saw in your
Eyes.
As you speak,
I believe your words:
The fear no longer
Exists,
When death is
Upon us.