A pebble tossed to the bottom of a bottomless lake left only a fractional ripple and disappeared.
That you were here mattered very little. It did not change the tides or stop the winds.
In your end A handful of family and friends felt deep anguish but the world still turned. Infinity still burned. Eternity did not feel the aching cost of loving that which was forever lost.
The view outside my window Did not stay the same. The season changed.
I felt the cycles of pain bouncing back year after year harder at first then softening some; Waking in pain, then easing some.
Till, I was intermittently numb. Then I forgot to grieve. You are still a part of me but even I go on turning like the earth, without you.