2am

I was drunk and happy

you were just cold

7am

hard as a rock

you’d left the building

2pm

they took you away

replaced you with that shithead of a funeral director

7pm

“he called me his partner”

two families tied by a secret bond

two families did set down their guns

set aside frustration, lay in the snow

life had cheated her of the one she loved

cheated for the love she now missed so

walked alone, numb, cold,

barely consoled.