It's Actually Just the Beginning

She didn't ask me to breathe,
But I did. 
She didn't ask me to listen,
But I did. 
She didn't ask me to remain silent,
But I did.
She didn't ask me to pray for her,
But I did. 
She didn't actually ask me
anything. 
She couldn't. 
She was dead.
Yet, breath, listen, and pray I did,
 pausing amidst the 
silence to hear my heart beat 
with hers in Heaven.
For death, I discovered, is not 
the cessation of breathing.
It's actually just the
Beginning.