Amy Michelle Mosier

The first death takes the life

The first death takes the life

And deprives us a simple touch

And a familiar laugh

To fill the spaces around us.

 

The second death suffers time

To create a widening rift -

Leaving one weeks - months behind

As in abandonment.

 

The third death is our memory -

What elements - what remnants

Hover almost perceptibly

But the mind fails to focus.

 

The final death is the loss of things -

A favorite - a souvenir

Broken into haphazard pieces

By a careless hand - forever.