Sunday, October 25, 2020

It's been a month

He rolled over, 

stretched his arm to the other side 

to see if she had come back to bed yet.  

Empty space.  


Eyes wide open, 

heart clenched like a fighter's fist,

 awareness:  she will never come back. 

Hot tears.


Sleeplessness 

until the dawn breaks.

4 comments:

Grace said...

💔

vanilla said...

Grace, again, thank you for your friendship. I will go on living!

Secondary Roads said...

I can't even imagine . . .

Lin said...

:(