The Etymology of Loss

The weeks after I lost you,

I was surprised to see

that life just keeps happening

with or without you by my side.

The solar system is still hurtling

through space.

And right now, someone is falling in love.

And the root of the word passion

originally meant to suffer.

And someone thought of the word "town"

before the word "love".

And even though a humming bird's

heart

beats 1000 times a minute,

it doesn’t compare to how fast my

heart

was beating, when I told you

that it was your body I wanted to be

lying next to during an ice storm.

That it was your body that I chose.

And when you didn’t choose mine,

in that second,

the Earth was struck with

ten lightning bolts.

But one could never be powerful enough

to restart

my ruptured heart.

m.e.o