Shhhhh

There is loneliness,
No quiet conversation,
No obligatory small talk.

Only the thoughts in your head.
No noise from without,
Or from within, only quiet.

Sad anniversaries,
Spent alone and quiet,
No flowers, no kiss...

Endless quiet days,
One after another,
Going quietly on and on.

Long quiet nights,
darkness smothering
And quietly challenging sanity.

Tears; the visual
Quiet evidence of
A well of pain.

Pray, reach out,
To what,
A solution?

Or to just endure,
The endless,
quiet of loneliness

Of quiet widowhood,
Of being alone,
Of silence?

Quiet endurance,
Quiet acceptance,
And quiet patience.

Of q.u.i.et,
Silence,
And loneliness...

I am okay,
Quietly. . .