RIP - Brigitte

It stopped beating at 5 AM this morning. 
This heart of yours that wouldn't stop beating. When all the rest, mind, then body, had all but given up. Months ago. But it kept beating. It just wouldn't give up. 
"J'en ai marre, j'en ai marre, j'en ai marre" the last few intelligible strings of words that you managed to utter, too long ago. So far back that it is hard for us to put the finger on when we started losing you. On when we lost you. 
There is no more reason d'en avoir marre. You are at peace now. 
Thank you for all that you have made possible. 
You've had a hard hard life, for too long. And then a few decades of respite. And then the years of slipping away. 
And now you're gone. 

That share of DNA that you have entrusted me with, I hope that I have done something worthy with it.