It comes quietly
Your absence
It comes silently
Invisibly
Yet fills the entire room
Becomes the air surrounding me
Cycling through my lungs
Inhale
She is gone
Exhale
She
Is
Gone
Inhale
Believe it
Turn it inside out
Light it on fire
Break the concrete beneath my feet
Destroy it all and
Fall through the earth
Float frozen in space
Become the emptiness between
Heavenly bodies
Just to see if maybe
Magically
That’s where she landed
When she left
And I can catch up
if I fall through too
As if I could possibly
Stay standing on solid ground
this spinning rock when
She is gone
Exhale
Inhale exhale
Inhale
She is gone
And the illusion
Of sunrise and sunset
Cotton candy colored clouds
Bleed of blasphemy
It’s just the earth spinning
And we are all fools
For misunderstanding
As when everything seems dead
And later proves to be alive
Perhaps the earth
Is telling me
That nothing
Not one thing
Has truly changed
Exhale
(death)