Escaped the bonds

Did you hear me screaming?
Did you feel the thumping of my heart?
As I heard that you lay dreaming
No longer of this world a part...
My voice cried out in anguish 
My soul cried out in fear...
How could you throw away?
Your precious God-given life so dear
I felt the sudden loss hit me
I felt tremors shaking in my bones
My lungs forgot to breathe a while
My mind: spinning out of control
Body trembling; I absorbed the shock
Brain switched to auto-pilot like a clock
Nothing else that I could do...
As I realised you'd escaped the bonds
That captured you: that held you here
Your soul had given up the ghost
Ah honey the devil stole your life
Just as if it was him who held the knife