[Calann]: 135.Contest entries.FiveWordsApril07v2

Five Words, April 2007 round. Influenced strongly by personal pain.
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"Can you die of a broken heart?" I hear myself asking, pressing a chaste kiss on her pale cheek. She is lovely even like this; lying on the hospital bed, thin as a wire. A faint purr emanates from her throat, and I know she is still here. I cannot bear the thought of her going, slipping into an eternal sleep, away from me, from our life together. She was the one to reach to me, the one to thaw the ice in my heart. Now, I ache. "Please don't leave."