Empty Rooms

Empty seats left lonely
Chairs now covered in cobwebs
Spokes with no words left
Families left with open holes
Hearts needing patches

Should we be angry?
Upset?
Sad or grieving?

Unspoken words
In near empty halls
Unused chairs

Wheels never to turn again
And each empty room
Echos the past

Stuffed animals now left
Lonely or in the bin
With other belongings
Now lacking anyone to belong to

Our dining rooms seem bigger now
Our hearts, more empty
Families lost in mourning
For those they hardly got to see

This last year
All thanks to something
We couldn’t see
Couldn’t know
Couldn’t predict
And couldn’t stop

With all our effort, still
We have patches to make
Holes to fill
More time needed
To fix our loses

If we listen, though
We might just hear them say
“You will be okay”
And we will, in time

Through the rain and
Through the cold
We’ll push through it all
Somehow, with time
Well will heal

Hope glows brightest
In the blackness

And, with great pain
Comes great change

We would love to be
Anywhere but here
Anywhere but in this position
But here we are

And we can’t change that
We can only move forward
“You will be okay”
They all repeat
In sync

None of them would want us
To still be hurting after this
Instead of remembering
Their deaths
I ‘d rather celebrate
Their lives

Don’t remember their sickness
But their health

And, after our time in the black
Is through
Take this loss
And let it elevate us
To new heights

Keep them close
In our hearts and
In our minds

But, when you’re able
Let go of the sorrow
Keep the memories sweet
Untainted
And let those be your guide
To a better
And brighter
Tomorrow