empty of her
empty of everything
literally
As if the Grinch has come
and taken every morsel
and every remnant
of a life that is now
definitely over
Yet it was not the Grinch
but his wife
who after 45 years declared
No More!
and exactly 30 days
before she took her last
breath
had kicked him out
for good
No regrets about that
but about the 45 years
wasted
the regrets were too heavy
to bear
too much for the
weakened body and soul
to recover from
So heavy were the
regrets
that she had died from them
Now standing here
in this empty house
without her
without the things she had collected
to make a home
No more
That's what she did
When she changed the will
Wrote him out
Had her daughters rent
the Uhaul
and clean out the place
the very day she left
to die
at the nursing home
Her last words to him
were no words at all
She saw him that last time
for the girls
But when he came
she pretended to
sleep
After he left, she turned
To her oldest daughter
and whispered,
"Did you get it all?"
and when the answer was
"Yes"
a long pleasure-filled
"Goooood" came from her
weakened voice
revealing the feisty woman
she had once been
Now standing there
in the doorway
he longs for his former life
but it is gone
not gradually but
suddenly
and never to be the same
Again
It is No More
cDeby White Jizi 2003
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