Writer's Wednesday #9

GONE
Morning arrives
And you're not here
Alone I face the world
Emptiness envelops me
Invades my soul
Looking ahead I wonder
How I will make it
Even through this second
When my single reason
To carry on
Is gone

written January 1994


So-
you're leaving
going somewhere, anywhere
out of here - away
far
Lonliness-
envelops me
traps me, keeps me
here - alone
scared
Why-
must it happen
this way, or anyway
leaving is so painful
but
Staying-
being left behind
not being able
to follow, is
worse

written February 1994