Monday, May 27, 2024

Missing the pain once it stops (2014)

  

The world feels empty

Without her,

Even though I’ve seen her

Only twice in recent years,

A vacancy I cannot explain,

Like a missing limb

On which I can still

Wiggled my fingers and toes,

An absence so acute

It is acutely painful

When the whole thing

Ought to be a relief,

After having worried for so long

About what she might do,

And what might happen next,

All this the inevitable conclusion

To something bubbling up

For months,

Her heart break for someone

I don’t even know

(or do not know I know if I do),

And her need to flee

To some place

Free of those constraints,

To avoid the constant reminder

Of who he is,

How she feels,

How much she misses him,

Just how I miss the pain

Once it stops

 


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