Relieved to find you gone
I relish the space you’ve left
I wander around, plumping out indents your body left behind
Quiet echoes through the house
Bouncing off the boulders of residual angerhurt, weighting the air
And defensive arguments play at high volume on a loop in my head
Maybe someday I will breathe deeply again
And I will hear what my own heart has to say
Beyond the Skinny Branches 