tomorrow / Wanda (wife)
The young widow by Diane_71
The sun will rise tomorrow
just like it did today
The world goes on around me
I can't find the words to say
just how much that hurt at first
The anger overwhelmed me
How dare they carry on like that!
Could not the whole world see
that the center of the universe
was no longer there at all?
How could I continue to live
when I so much wanted to crawl
into a little hole somewhere
and never speak another word
to anyone about anything?
They evidently hadn't heard
that the life I knew was over
I was left here all alone
My friend, my life, my soulmate
was now suddenly gone
out of this world, this life, without me
The light inside me has grown dim
I had never contemplated
the thought of losing him
It never really crossed my mind
He was so young and full of life
Always thought he'd be my husband
and I would be his wife
for at least another forty or maybe fifty years!
They all said I'd find another someday
'cause I was still so young
I bit my tongue, but wanted to say
that's the last thing on my mind!
I have a gaping hole in me
and nothing can ever fill it.
Now please stop talking and let me be
a grieving young widow and mother
I've got so much to figure out
about my life and how I'll live it
Sometimes all I could do was shout
to God and the walls around me
and to the grass, and trees and sky
and even to the sun for shining!
Everything I'd ever believed now felt like a lie
told to me by some stranger
who'd briefly crossed my path
and left me feeling so bitter
The world would feel my wrath!
Then one day I hope to realize
that my light inside still shone
only now it was much brighter
and that's when I knew I'd grown
I knew that I'd been given
a gift from God above
for now I really understood
the value of true love.
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