Devastation

Categories: Bereavement

I hope this feeling of devastation will pass away
Instead of draining me day after day
I never imagined I’d so miss your touch
Was it, I wonder, that I loved you too much?
This pain in my chest must be my heart
Of which for so long you were a part
Just feels like it’s been cut in two
Please will you show me what I can do?
Will this awful emptiness I feel
Depart? Will my wounded heart heal?
I trust it will for passing into a new year
I am feeling your loss so strongly dear
And I really don’t know what I can do
I don’t actually want to live without you
So, if you can, help me today
Come to me in love; show me the way
To carry on.

Ruth Jessup