Each day I realize how much I love you,
a truth growing deeper with time,
like roots anchoring the earth,
slowly becoming unshakeable.

Today it was about your name,
short and sweet, as it appeared,
I was swept away, not by a wave,
but an ocean of love and warmth.

Or, maybe it was a thought,
the quiet certainty you are somewhere,
watching over me with a smile,
with the serenity of stars in the sky.

Though constellations away from me,
I find a thread, a light connecting us,
by love and unspoken promises,
that distance or absence cannot break.

Timing couldn't be any worse
We were living in a makeshift flat
While barely making ends meet
But we always wanted a baby
So we were thrilled anyway

Yet life had other plans
Of loss and unbearable pain
As it does over and over again

The wishes that the cold will falter
Has halted
My mouth is quivering
And my body is shivering
My nose is as red as a cherry
And my lips are forming into the color of a blueberry

The ice of the cold biting my skin
The heat in me quivering within
The cold slicing my flesh
The slices are still fresh
The 20°F weather isn't helping
Instead, it's making me continue yelping

Ugh... I just hope I won't get hypothermia...

all that pain
and belittlement
you served me
day and night
when no one
was looking
made the little
man within you
feel much, much,
much bigger
but now you
stand before me
weeping
with no teeth
and the big man
within me
has forgiven you.