The Days I Loved You Most

by Amy Neff

outliving the person who is the source of my heartbeat,

would be impossible to endure.

I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. To trudge along after those closest to you have died, to continue on without your love beside you. How lonely that would be, how horrible to keep saying goodbye, to exist in the spaces they no longer fill.

No one in love gets out of this life unscathed.

When everything fell apart but you were all I needed.”

I plead for another whole life together. This one wasn’t long enough.