In The Quiet (2024)

In The Quiet

It's evening

After work I drive home

Under a beautiful sunset

Sky full of orange and pink

While it's still light

We go for a little walk 

Talk about our day

You go back to sleep, tired

I put the breakfast you didn't eat back in the fridge

I make myself a cup of tea

Have some dinner of leftovers

Sit on the loveseat under the blanket

Open a book to read

In the quiet

With the two of us in opposite corners

The house doesn't feel so big

Every room is filled with

Quietness, darkness or both

I worry about you while I'm at work

How you are feeling

If you are eating enough or too much

If you are sleeping enough or too much

Yesterday when we talked

You said you felt 3 out of 10

And I felt guilty that I felt a 9

Today I meditated on self nurturing

How each of us are so precious

Just by being

We touch each other's lives

And those of others

Friends come and go

But you are my chosen family

We only have each other

I don't know how I can help

To lift the darkness from your eyes

I wish you could have a nice cry and feel better

They say time heals all

If I fill the weekends with 

Plans of adventures and visits with friends

Will the time it will take for you to heal 

Go faster

I guess we will only know if we try

For now

I sit

Reflecting

And finding some solace

In the quiet

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