March 12, 2025Poem

You still sleep

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You still sleep

I wept

I still weep

I will a while yet

There is no end to it

The pain of it

The rend of it

There is only the waiting

The wanting

The despair

I sit here

As you lie there.

There are days

When I flow

As a river

The hope in me

The blood in me

And then there are days like these.