Though you cry, the pain

Though you cry, the pain

Plain to see.

The terror in your eyes,

The fear, unspoken.

When words

Are not enough

Meaning,

Is in the silence

Suspended, invisible,

As the air

Surrounding us.

Breathing feels

Like drowning.

The only respite

Is in the touch,

So familiar.

Softness of skin

Hot with fever,

Slick with sweat.

The shiver

Of recollection.

The memory,

Of before.

When everything

Was easy.

Living was incidental.

We were caught up

In humorous interludes,

Pleasing negotiation.

With little real effort.

One day followed the next.

As if we had forever.

Fear of tomorrow

Did not exist.

Today was all.

An eternity spent with you,

All that mattered.

Now fear of loss,

Time foreshortened,

Is too great a burden

To carry.

The weight of it,

Squeezes the

Life out of me.