After He's Gone (My Father) Poem by Keith Anastase KAMOSSO

Silently sobbing under the sheets
She wishes to see one and only man she loved
She pray for stars but the sky is gray
She breathe out hardly with tears all over her face
She wishes for only a gaze on him

By her bedroom door I stand listening
Her heart faintly beats out of her chest
He's the only one thing on her gone astray mind
The only true one love she ever had
Every night of everyday it goes the same for all this long it's been

She is lost from this planet
She gone from herself
She has a heart but moved out from herself
She's alive but I don't see it
She is under the pain that I can't describe

Every time I listen to her praying
Whispering to God but somehow it's loud
She cries while praying:
'I know it's much and too much asking Dear Lord
But if you could only give me one more chance'

And on and on she adds words after words
Sometimes I pray quietly along:
'Usually you don't do this heavenly God
But why don't you see her tears and hear her wish
And send her my father even in her dreams'

Maybe in the morning when she wakes up
The feeling from her last night dreams
Will be the courage of her following day
Her strength through his absence
Her joy for days to come