alone
In the hours, days and weeks following my mothers death, I experienced something I never had before — the sudden overwhelming sensation of a deep void in the center of my chest, which I expressed like this in a poem about missing her:
“my chest becomes a gaping hole
cleaves my heart, then bares my soul”
This is like that.
alone
© 2019 punkie
alone
strange how
#missing #you
manifests as a void,
a hollow in my chest,
where only space exists
in the place that once held
warm flesh and blood,
a heartbeat of love.
now, emptiness
lives here
alone
© 2019 Susan Macaulay . I invite you to share my poetry and posts widely, but please do not reprint, reblog or copy and paste them in their entirety without my permission. Thank you.
