My Soul

My Soul

When you have gone away, I feel lost

as if you will never come back again

You reassure me

"I'm not going anywhere."

afraid of non-existence

Ashes and bone

The loss and pain that have always been unknown

life lost to the wind

left to live without a smile, a touch,

and the broken parts will not heal

cracks in the pavement

the heart on the inside

peeled apart

the knowledge that nothing remains the same

blue and red molecules I've been told the human eye cannot see

float through the air, adrift

all that is left of the human flesh

The heavens will open

and I pray aloud to a God in which I've rarely spoken

"Please don't take away all that is my soul."

 My soul...

Angela Minard©2012