Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be.  It's all Joss.

Well, thanks to a friend of mine who does not understand the phrase 'spoiler-free', I have heard the big spoiler for the big finale.  Now, I don't know if it's true yet (but I'm gonna kill her anyway), but this is something I wrote just after I was ruthlessly told.  Again, it's from the heart and it's spontaneous.

Buffy's POV in the last moments of the last episode (if it happens the way it's rumoured).

The End

I close my eyes, lift my face to the sun

And feel the warmth washing over me.

Washing away the pain,

Washing away the poison.

I sense the life-giving light through my eyelids

As if for the first time.

My body has re-awoken,

My mind is at peace.

The war is won

But the fight cannot be over.

We have suffered and some have died.

We have loved them and we will never forget.

But the world goes on.

I have fought,

I have struggled,

I have lost myself,

I have wept,

I have been hurt,

I have died.

But still I stand.

The warmth heals me,

Gives me my strength again.

I feel like a child seeing the world anew.

I will mourn you

I will miss you

I will shed tears for you

But I will not break.

The life-giving sunshine renews me,

The dawn that saw your death.