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Another Long Winter Without You
A Poem
ice coats more than the pavement
as one more year draws to a close,
and my heart feels so heavy it sinks
into my stomach and down to my feet
(it’s so hard just getting out of bed).
snow litters the ground in tufts,
and I remember the cat you loved —
a great white Persian with sapphire eyes,
a beauty who disappeared into the night
(not long after you left us, how poetic).
the sky looks like spoiled milk
spilling across an unknowable canvas,
the color bled from all angles
like the day you said goodbye
(a winter much like this).
so I’ll suffer through the cold
and go to blankets for comfort
and recall times left forgotten
when you were still here
(and that was not a passing phase).
winter comes along every year,
and I’m never ready, not once,
because all I know is the loss of you
and days spent without you near.
