Tuesday, March 05, 2024

Touring the Ruins

NYT photo

Out of order, arrhythmic,

the center unspooling,

we stood on the sidewalk

with little to say,

the woman I married

no longer my wife, 

twenty years signed away,

unable to awaken,

unmoored and numb,

and never the same,

our children, our children... 

How much can a man leave behind?