21 Grams

Acid pulsing through my veins
Causing my body to ache
With every beat of my bleeding heart.
Insides melting away
Until I am nothing
Just an empty shell remains...

Lifeless eyes spill emotionless tears
Which make their way down cold cheeks
Leaving salty trails
Where once there was colour.
Freckles gently fade
Till grey shale remains.

A body chiseled from stone -
No movement...
Air has left these lungs
Which once stretched and shrunk
To provide life.

21 grams lighter -
One wonders...
Where had my excess weight found refuge?
Did Hell want me? Would Heaven accept me?
Only God knows the answer to that...

So here I lie,
Not entirely me
Just a few grams less...