She Felt Hollow

She felt hollow, numb, used up. The life she thought she had Was ripped away in what felt like seconds. Since he came home and finally told her the truth. The truth was a long time coming. She had not suspected, being concerned with grieving. They had lost their three-year-old son to cancer last Year; a battle they knew they were losing. A battle that Took every ounce of her strength. They were lucky they Had other children, or she would not have been able to Survive that blow. She had recently congratulated her husband’s receptionist Who was sporting a knock-out diamond ring. Never dreaming It was from her husband, who wrote a check without a backward Glance, out of their joint account. The woman did not have sense enough to be embarrassed, but she Did want her man to straighten his wife out. The wife who had Put the man through medical school, working two jobs. The wife Who thought she had given him everything she had, but realized After her son’s death that she had more, she just did not know it before. She was hollow, numb, nothing left, after her husband straightened Her out. He had taken her soul, leaving her a hollow shell of herself.