By Mel N. Colley

 

We all experience

loss and

heartbreak,

which are so easily generated.

Many things

can be lost

that would shatter a heart:

 

A job

that was desperately needed,

in order to help a hospitalized mother;

 

A house

torn apart by a ravaging storm

that no one saw coming

and no one could stop;

 

A beloved pet

who was the only joy in

a lonely woman’s life;

 

A child

whose depression

a single mother failed to see;

 

A best friend

who went to the hospital for a stomach ache

when it was so much worse;

 

A father

who was killed

by a stray bullet from a distant gun;

 

 

And you,

who was the light of my life,

then the power went out.

 

Editor: Brennan Nick