Tears

Why do I mourn

You cannot feel the tears

Dripping one

By salty one

Into the chasm gouged

In my existence

My lifeblood seeping away

As surely as your own

Once did

Into the crumbling earth

And endless void

Why do I cry

If you aren't here

To feel my grief

Or comfort me

And tell me that

You understand

And share my pain

No matter how alone

I seem to be

Grief has no meaning

For those whose hearts

No longer beat

Why then

These desperate sobs

That seek to cleave

My own in two?

Perhaps, in truth

They’re not for you

But meant for me

Because with your death

I’ve lost a part of

What made me

Me

And I grieve the loss

Of the person I

Can never be

Again

#love #death #challenge #poetry