GRIEF Poem: Night-time musings, by Michelle Brown

Videos are portals in time, opened,
just to hear your voice again.
Because I loved you with primal abandon.
I followed you into the darkness and back into the light,
wanting you to know how much I loved you,

Wanting you to love me too.

I stare into the darkness,
Lost in the recording of a love that was
Your beautiful voice; filled with love of me.

What do I feel there as the tears track their way down my face?

My brain retreats to the comfort of words –
any words,
not necessarily literate words:
but words to ward off Despair’s dark kiss.

I made a promise.
My heart seizes, holding on to its pain tightly.
And my soul?

My soul just yearns for you.