One More Step

by Lillian Schneider

To those of you who lie in bed with the one who’s supposed to love you, yet never touches you. To those of you who cry each night for the love you deserve, but don’t have. To those of you who feel alone, even when you’re mere inches away from the one who vowed to love you for life. To those of you who no longer have the energy to try with the wrong person. To those of you who desperately seek your other half.

“Grief has no timeline and no expiration date. It lives here forever.” She presses her hand to my chest, over my heart,