Tell her

Will you tell her that I sobbed? That the tears that came wouldn’t, couldn’t stop? Will you tell her how my cheeks both sagged and creaked, Yet smiled and gleamed, from painful and grateful aspects of my reality? 9 April 2023

Heart contrast

My heart hurts & yearns together It feels burdensome & tight. It wants others to give it what it has to give itself. Winter 2023

He walked me home

He walked me home last night On the air was old spice, strong, briefly, twice. He made it clear that he´d seen me there, almost to the door, but from there he´d go no more. When, an hour before, I´d sat at where I believed he´d breathed his last. Looking to the ground; the snow,

This mourning

This morning this mourning feels meager. By tonight it will speak in words I never knew I´d hear. Both whisperable and visceral. In languages I never thought I´d have fluency. A language I never wanted to learn, memories I´d rather burn, realities I want to neglect, emotions I prefer to deflect. LT. 03/13/2023 *MkatK

Grief needs relief

My peaceful piano can´t piece together the missing parts; the parts no longer at play since you went away. It helps ease me into sleep and bring my mind a break, a breath it seeks because this grief also needs relief. March 8th, 2023 – LT *MkatK