my heart is a poem.

my heart is a poem.

tragedy defines itself, in words of a life lost
and a future put to sleep.
children with no father
parents with no son
a sister with no brother
a wife with no husband

it's interesting how an
absence can cause a
such intense swelling, fullness.

pain thick and heavy.

it is confusing and sobering.

the disturbance in sleep
in focus
all of it seeps into a powerless
sigh that wants desperately
to make something beautiful
out of this

but there is only a putrid
glare
everywhere.