alone

I’m curled up in a corner

hugging my knees

to my chest

alone

solitary in my aloneness

forlorn and desolate

in my isolation

from the world

and from you.

The sadness

I feel

is suffocating

and pressing on

my soul.

Why, tell me why

did you leave me

without

a backward flicker?

I shiver bereft

mourning your death

left in the cold

but your imprint

is still there.