i wept

i wept for a long time
inside
like a grief stricken illness
that doesn't wet your cheeks
too sad to shed tears
a loss
of a best friend more than all
times remembered, in vain?
and yet i wait and hope
but this deep sickly gnawing
says "she won't come back
there'll be nobody like her" -
and that's the worst bit. 


gareth j m saunders
http://www.garethjmsaunders.co.uk
(c) 2002