Departure

Categories: Death

Forever engraved on my memory
As if chiselled into very hard stone
Was the day when you quietly left me
Forever. I felt so alone.

So many years you had been there
Always walking alongside me
Now, suddenly, I was taking
A solitary trudge of misery.

The passage of time has helped to heal
The profound heaviness in my heart
But in my mind is inscribed the memory
Of that day when you had to depart.

Ruth Jessup