Death

emptyWritten in 1984, this is another expression of my grief of losing my grandmother.

Loss.
A missing piece
of the puzzle.
A knot
in the throat.
A Demon
in the gut.
An unfulfilled need.
A missing.
A not there.
A silent scream.
Anger.
     Grief.
          Deprivement.
A barrier to cross
     some day
Yet crossed by another
     today.

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