Loss

Head on the floor
Feet toward the sun
Every memory and action vivid
The promise of a swift return too little
Too haunted and too fragile
The same noise over and over again
Panic wraps its lying hands around your throat
Quiet sobs and cries for help echo off the stone walls
And fade to nothing
Alone underground
White light
Then dark
"I love you. I'm sorry"
Left with the solitude of this heartless, shattered chest
Empty within and empty without
And the realization that everyone, everything, everywhere ends
I don't want to be here without you