May 5, 2025

Bereft

It will hurt.
God, it will hurt.
Ripping me from the inside
like something I've never known before.

The worst part
is that I will live through it.
Get to the other side
and smile while everyone says:
"Well, doesn't that feel better?"

And I will not say
what I know to be true:
No, as a matter of fact,
It does not. 

-lesnspired