Separation

It’s a thing easily done, living without you.
The day-to-day routine is the simplest of exercises:
Waking up in the morning and going to sleep at night.
The in-between is a slur of
Distractions,
Objectives,
To-do’s.

The fear, however, is still there.
Engulfing and heartbreaking, not because
Life cannot be lived without you,
But because there is no longer a time in any memory
Before the time you said hello.

The events themselves have become faint,...