When You Disappeared

by John Marrs

Because when someone simply disappears into thin air with no reason, no explanation and no closure, all you’re left with is an interminable void. A gaping, aching chasm that can’t be filled with the love, sympathy or strength of others. Nobody knew my heart was now a black hole, swirling with the debris of unanswerable questions.

I had no funeral to arrange; no body to bury; no one to blame; no autopsy to offer a medical answer or suicide note to explain a reason; no nothing. Just months of absolute nothingness.

Because the more you trust in someone, the more opportunities you give them to shatter your illusions about them.

Our house had not been built of brick, as I’d thought, but of feathers. A wind I couldn’t harness would destroy it whether I was present or not.