Marsha21

TornIt is Sunday morningThe day on which you rose earlyAnd surprised us with donutsand the morning papersI have to chooseto keep the tradition aliveor take a new pathCreate new rituals I am tornDoes...

Daily VisitsI went to your grave again todaySat on the damp groundThen laid my hand upon your final resting placeThat special place that gets to hold you when I can’tI feel so drawn there and so...

By MyselfThe hardest of all, in losing you, is being singleThere is no “us” anymoreMy friendships with other coupleshave lost intimacy, and I am looked at differentlyThere is no you and meOnly...

 Your VoiceI sat by your grave this morningLike I do most morningsI talk to youAnd you answer mewith no Earthly voiceBut rather the one in my heartI loved you so and always willMy love, my friend,...

LimboThe sun is shiningWhy?Why should there be sunlight and happiness?I am plunged into another place where the sun is shadowsand the shadows are youI am looking toward the brightnessBut am pulled...

OthersOthers don’t seem to understandHow it is to have half of yourself ripped awayIt is like sand falling through your fingers with nothingto stop the rapid fallthe silence of your empty chair...

WantI dreamt of you last nightOr rather, had a nightmareIn which you left me for someone elseI tried to figure out where I failed youAnd manipulated how to get you backI woke before the dream...

   TodayI woke up and got the boys off to school.I went by the shop to see Bill’s solitary truck without yours.I visited you at your grave.I weeded the garden and pruned the overhanging branches...

 GhostIf I am to understand why I was left here without youIt will take a million tearsBefore logic and reason take over for my heartAnd every day is not one where I see you at every turn

DisconnectLate at nightI sit and stare at your empty chairThe grief is overwhelmingYou are not there to sit in silenceThat companionable silencethat silence that is like no otherThe connection is...

HelpI sit here searching for some kind of hopeThinking that I will find “on-line” people who understandI know there are people out there somewhere in this vast and empty world without you in...

GoneThe day is lost againI wonder how it came to beThat you are no more

                    Missing you...                      Harley            Quiet, still, waitingFor he who will never ride again         ...