This is a poem written for a classroom assignment for a creative writing class describing the loss of a person.
©2012 AMSchiaffino:
She called.
It broke the day with her news.
I cried at the sound of the mews.
The day was dark suddenly,
I cried as I drove
I gathered my thoughts into a ball in my head
What was it she said?
Oh yes, he’s dead.
Her lover, a man
Not one I did know
Not the man that she knew
nor the man she will ever know.
He had died,
She had been called
She was quiet with her views
She sat and cried too,
And the room became blue.
A man,
A lover,
A man I did not know
A man she knew forever
was gone
and now she is alone.
