Disclaimer: I don't own Pirates of the Caribbean.
A heartbeat.
A heart beats 9600 times each day, keeping life flowing through the body. With each beat, we are able to function as humans doing our normal daily routine. It's such a natural process that we don't even realize the extraordinary action taking place. We take it for granted always expecting that heartbeat to be there pushing blood through our veins. We expect to feel each beat, but there will come a time when that heartbeat is gone.
Having experienced that moment, I must tell you now that there is no other experience on earth compared to it. When the air leaves our bodies, we expect the suffocating, but we don't expect the agony of realizing time on Earth is through. Of course, we try to prepare ourselves for it as all humans do, but something about living through it makes everything much worse. We want to forestall the final judgement, as if that is really possible. There is now ay to escape, not even when you have the tiniest bit of hope.
Hope is what finally killed me. It landed me in this never-ending purgatory because I was foolish enough to make a deal with the devil, as if I could really best him. Never did he intend to set me free. Never again would I be able to enjoy freedom because of one mistake of unfaithfulness.
An untamable spirit pushes us all to divulge in life's pleasurable open hands. Lust is a hard demon to silence, one we all fight on a daily basis. It creeps into the dark corners of our minds while we are completely unaware, settling into our thoughts creating wild fantasies. Yet, at the same time, we secretly hope will continue. It forces us to dace what we really want, separating the honest from the dishonest. It makes us face who we really are to the point of breaking.
I would never have though of myself as honest or honorable or good, not after the things I've done. Yet, in the end, I proved myself. Redeemed myself becoming the man I had always striven to be. It still amazes me, as I sit here suspended between Heaven and Hell, that the love of one woman could cause so much suffering and so much joy for one man.
Just one more heartbeat….