Dead Women

[bon_bon_lives]

I buried my grandmother at 19

I buried my mother at 22

I buried my best friend at 34

All these women

All my dead women

I saw their bodies and their faces

I saw their hair and their closed eyes

I even kissed them

Kissed dead skin

I wept tears on dead flesh

I howled and bellowed like an animal

I showed my animal truth

No words can express true grief

But the throat can

The lungs can

It’s the sound of air squeezing through a crushed chest

Forced breath through an imploding cavity

I am a cavity for all the love you ever gave me