The Walls Are Crushing Me
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Poetry/Free Verse/he Walls Are Crushing Me
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All Rights Reserved, 2023, Constance La France
"When God closes a door he opens a window."
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my nest became empty
not because my child graduated high school
and went off to university
graduated from that
got a job in another city
fell in love and got married
my son never saw the blue sky
I held him but twice
once dead in my arms
and then to place him in his coffin bed
where his bones will lay for eternity
my husband and I took apart his lovely nursery room
donating everything to a woman's shelter
mom, I asked do I return the gifts to people
after it was empty we closed the door
and we wept holding each other
my husband took it very badly
sinking into a deep depression and funk
I could not pull him back
he was slipping away from me and our love
one winter day
he crashed his car
and now my nest was empty forever
I will never know for sure if it was an accident
but, I still love him and will always
now, what
alone the walls crushing in on me
the memories wanting to bury me
lost in a dark hole of nothing
I could not live like this way
so I went home to my parents
I went back to my original nest
my old room
to the love only parents can give
and one step at a time
oh yes, it took lots of time
now, today, I have a new nest
full of the things that I love
and a sweet little cat to love
will there be more
well, only time will tell
Copyright © Constance La France | Year Posted 2023
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