It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

by Anne de Marcken

Mitchem says I’m in denial. That I am depressed because I am indulging in a sense of loss instead of wonder. “Embrace your new existence,” he says.

What in me wants to persist if there is no life to extend, no hunger to feed? What in me wants to die?

I grow accustomed to the feeling of hanging upside down while seeing the world right side up. This is how it is now.

I would have had so much in having you and would have lost so much in losing you that I would no longer want anything.