My Chasm - Mount Eerie
I am a container of stories about you
And I bring you up
Repeatedly
Uninvited to
Do the people around me want to keep hearing
About my dead wife
Or does the room go silent
When I mention you
Shining alive
I live with your absence
And it's been
Two months since you died
I'll speak to your absence and carry our stories around
My whole life
But when I'm in public I don't know
What's that look in their eyes
I now wield the power to transform
A grocery store aisle into a canyon of pity and confusion
And mutual aching to leave
Mmm
Mmm
The loss in my life
Is a chasm I take into town
And I don't want to close it
Look at me
Death is real
