ALONE WITHOUT HER

Without her here
This house is alone.
It’s no longer a home.

It’s horribly,
Abysmally,
Bottomlessly,
Desolately,
Terribly
Alone.

It’s a dark cave
With red beady eyes
Glistening at its end.

Moanings
And groanings
Whisper on its wind.

This house,
This world,
Is cloudy and dark.

I awake in the night
Tossing
And
Perspiring,
Realizing I lie here alone.

Where before I would awaken to
Her breathing in the night,
There is now only silence
And I listen in fright.

There’s a darkness
And a coldness,
Where only yesterday
Light,
And warmth,
And happiness
Lay.

Before, I could reach out
And touch the warmness there.
Now I reach out
And am poignantly aware,

Of the night
And the coldness,
And the dark, painful reality
That she is no longer there.
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