Sunday, May 17, 2020

What are the words

the name of 
the heaviness in my gut, 
tightness of chest, 
heart with too little 
blood to pump, 
too thick with grief 
to reach 
the tips of my fingers? 

What can I call 
the ache, 
the hollow 
that cannot be filled, 
the falling apart 
when you are too far 
to pull me together? 

What unfathomable magic, 
to paint the sorrow 
into neat letters, 
to spell out 
loneliness 
and confine it 
to the page. 

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