81.Side By Side

Exhausted
The traveller was about to collapse
I can't go on he gasped
He stopped
He dropped
There he laid
With his last breath
He took a long fond look
At the corpse he'd dragged
After it died
Hoping it would revive
He sighed
He cried
Then he died
Two corpses
Side by side
He just didn't know
How to let go

80. With or Without Thee

How do others need to be
Before I can be happy
If my happiness depends on thee
Sooner or later I'll be in misery
Now I know my happiness is my responsibility
Freeing you to be whom you are and want to be
And me to enjoy my journey
With or without thee