Helen J Radford Poet Free verse

I Feel Your Loss .......

A surge of emotion overwhelms me. 
I scan your eyes for a clue but 
see only misty sadness in deepest blue. 

I had watched as you held his hand, 
counting breaths, holding yours as 
you thought he had drawn his last. 

Whispering private words about the past - 
pausing, weeping, remembering, watching 
as life ebbed away, recalling all your yesterdays. 

When words dry up there is only silence 
and now silence is all you have; 
silent tears, silent words, silent memories. 

Still in the stillness, alone in the 
solitude as half of a depleted pair. 
Sadness hangs in the tear-drenched air. 

Frozen in eternity I see you there 
still holding his lifeless hand and 
I scan your eyes for a clue, a hint of 

what to say to you?  You look up and 
a surge of emotion overwhelms me. Tangible 
sadness in eyes of misty blue, and I cry too.

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