Dedication

Who is shattered
Heartbroken
Devastated

What or who
Never recovers
From a tragedy — a loss
Sudden
Momentous

What can happen
That you never come back from
Who never does

What goes on in that someone
That they never do
What’s broken

In that body
Or mind —
What goes missing

What is lost —
irretrievably —
By death of someone
You loved

By death of someone
Who was once —
A part of you

No limb is gone
Nothing seen is lost
What then is lost —

That the loss becomes
Unbearable
Unacceptable
Incompatible with
Your existence

A wound so deep
It never heals
What loss —

What person
What body or mind
Holds such sorrow
Such pain

What else
Why else
But the will —
Of some universe
Must it be

That someone never recovers —

That the heart —
Is forever wounded
And healed only

By their own death