He took the ring off. Placed it on the table. The palm of his hand was still itching from the cuts that the hasty opening of the brandy had dished. It was a quiet house for now. “The sirens will break it; someone will hear”. Heartbeats and breaths turned seconds to an hour spent staring at the window: the curtains were drawn. She was dead. The doors were shut. Bar the empty bottle, he was alone. Like slow tears the fading lights trickled through the gaps in the curtains – caressing his sweating brow: dusk; and darkness.
She was dead. The thought, once ejected, resounded off the guitar in the corner, the low chandelier, the oak coffee table – that she had picked out, the leafless bonsai – a birthday gift, the clock…and the clock – she was dead. Breaths consumed themselves, heartbeats chastised, and the second hand nailed him to the dusk: to the darkness. Dead!
He scratched his itchy palm, pulling more of the grazed skin off, winced, sighed, and yielded to sleep.
It's Complicated 
Wow, my adrenaline was definitely building. The rhythm of ‘she was dead’ is a heartbeat to the piece. The concept of the realisation of her death bouncing off inanimate objects heightens the tension and proves his disorientation.