Waiting-Wish

She looks down and he stops breathing, face contorting into frantic anger, gripping her shoulders with large, crushing hands. "I don't understand." She weeps into her immaculately white dress with the grace of a siren, eyes darkened. "Try, love, try, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry…" Rambles. She shakes a bit, fragile frame closing in on breaking point.   I can't breathe. He thinks, and realization dawns like a sunlight on the gallows. I wonder if I can still die for lack of breath… "You said forever." She pulls herself away, shaking her head, eyes rimmed with red. "Not like this." Desperation tightens his voice and he ji