My Baby Making Eggplant Parmesan / When He's With His Other Baby / He's a Vegetarian
Grief
You have been sad.
Your dog has died,
And that promotion didn't come through.
But you have never lost the land
And watched as everything inside
Is wrapped in cotton
Gasping
While beeping hits a solid note
That will not stop,
Broken ladders
Forever under clouds,
The sky denied,
The years and losses
Brought to empty sheets
And mental leaks into your daily haze,
And that is all.
You don't get over.
You hold it,
Burning blue at first,
Then slowly red,
Then ashes,
Dust so cold you miss the pain
That ate you.
God will give you
More than you can bear,
And you will bear it
Every day.
- 8/19/20