So Weighted
lives were ended-- toothbrushes won't be used again,
families will cry over the shampoo left in bottles
that will never wash the sweet hair they once combed,
the leftover gas in the car tanks of the deceased
will burn out into the air like the spreading of ashes.
Tonight I'll clean my room for those who won't again,
for the families who will have to decide whether to wash
their loved ones laundry or spread it around the house,
one article per room for the wedding pictures that will never be.
Today lives were stolen
and Right now I'm trying to commemorate that
but Tonight I'll fall asleep thinking about the holes
that will be in this paper
when the weight of my loneliness
sinks in
Copyright © Christy Totten | Year Posted 2007
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