When I Die Poem by Patti Masterman

When I die I want to achieve immortality
As in, the spaces between all your breaths
The time between the impulses sent to blink your eyelids
The mute partitions separating all your heart beats
Finger on your lips; all the things you left unsaid
All the tears that did not pool to fall down your cheeks
All the words you did not scrawl upon cards
The thoughts that never finished forming
The aborted brain impulses that short circuited
The emotions that never came to completeness
The stillborn ecstasies hidden in the nights blind depths
The syncopated pauses between the nerves and neurons firing
The Morse-coded cells of your body sending the song of your whole being
Into the deep womb of lost galaxies and forgotten time
Into the never expelled sigh that holds all your souls breathtaking loveliness.