• Work With Me
  • Shop
    • Online Courses
    • Spiritual Toolbox
    • Work With Me
    • Books
  • Blog
    • Spirituality
    • Poetry & Prose
  • About
  • Contact
    • Cart

      0
    • Login
Jessica KristieJessica Kristie
  • Work With Me
  • Shop
    • Online Courses
    • Spiritual Toolbox
    • Work With Me
    • Books
  • Blog
    • Spirituality
    • Poetry & Prose
  • About
  • Contact
    • Cart

      0
    • Login

Poetry & Prose

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Poetry & Prose
  • Windowless Room

Windowless Room

  • Categories Poetry & Prose
  • Date July 8, 2015

There is a crack from ceiling to floor
that grows with the rising heat.
My soul trembles into the seams
of this windowless room,
leaving your residue behind
for me to carry
into the night.
I can’t pull hard enough
on this rope that holds you
at the other end.
I’ve been given a death sentence
I can’t ignore
or deny.
Exhausted from the grieving
and desperate for a new normal
without you.
I continue to do
all I know how to do—
suffer
in silence.
Bird Divider

“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”
—Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

 

Tag:depression, grief, poems, poems about grief, poems about loss, poetry, relationships, sadness

  • Share:
author avatar
Jessica

Previous post

Circling
July 8, 2015

Next post

Grief in Silence
July 13, 2015

You may also like

Ghost Beside You
The Ghost Beside You
6 February, 2019
ppGUV2IXei4-451
Weightless
23 November, 2018
image1
What it Looks Like
7 July, 2018

Leave A Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

8 + four =

Search

Copyright © 2021 Jessica Kristie / Terms and Conditions / Privacy

  • Home
  • Counseling
  • Online Courses
  • Shop
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact

Login with your site account

Lost your password?