It’s your silence I can’t abide
The close-lipped glance of pity at my pain
Your busy mouth suddenly stopped to take in the fullness of my anguish
Struggling to regain composure,
I plaster the smile back on to save you
(Just what you want)
Flopping heavily back to my cozy little ramshackle hidey-hole to clumsily stave off another eruption
Tired hands go back to tidying the detritus from your other life in wonder at how a creature which has been crushed so small could somehow be so vast,
And how so vast a creature could disappear
You will never love me like I love you
Not quantity
The difference
Tick tock tick tock tick tock
The tempo of my trudging dirge