She sighs. She lies
in your arms. She lies
of sticky coffee kisses
that melt into sunrise.
Toasting in your morning warmth,
weighing down your heart she lies.
Her breath meets your lips. She
drags the shallows of your eyes.
Something flickers; dies.
And still she lies.
Still. And you watch
the colours ebbing
from her water-colour eyes.
One definition of "drag" from the American Heritage Dictionary is "To search or dredge the bottom of a body of water." People do this when trying to find a corpse, a gun, a sunken boat, or something else that might be lying on the bottom and not visible through murky water.
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