When We Lose Someone We Love

The drops of pain silently trickle down her moistened cheeks
Following each other down her anguished face
She sits hunched over in the depths of ineffable sadness
Grief impregnating her presence, tears washing the air;
She lost someone she loved. 

Her shoulders tremble, her heart has a hollow
Chin to her chest, insuppressible sobs escaping her lips.
No medicine can numb the pain, no promise can lift her spirits
No song can bring a smile to her face
No voice can hush her pitiable cries,
For she lost someone she loved.  

She's oblivious to the comforting warmth of the sun on her back
A veil of tears blinds her to the beauty all around
"The birds", she thinks, "how can they sing today!"
As the wind seems to utter with mournful whispers,
"She lost someone she loved."

How she is tortured by the memories--
By the memories she has and by those she doesn't
Her dazed mind gropes through the gloom of regret
Oh, the things she could have said and done!
But they are all today unsaid, undone forever
For she lost someone she loved. 

Her mind plays out so many scenes before her...
What things she would do, what things she would say!
If the merciless hand of death hadn't touched his life
If the grave hadn't snatched him away in its sinister grasp,
And she hadn't lost someone she loved. 
The hands of the clock move slowly, rhythmically--
They, only they, will be able to ease the pain
And teach her suffering heart to live with the grief.
For only the sands of time and the threshold of tomorrows
Can help to dry the streaming tears 
And dull the ache consuming our hearts
When we lose 
Someone 
We love.

Yusita

~ "Change the world with your pen. Touch souls with your words, and awaken cold, slumbering hearts with the warm, powerful rays of poetry." -Yusita

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