Waiting Room

The worst of the season has passed. Now I just pray no surprises compound in the last days of the year.

Photo by Arun Sharma on Unsplash

This home just feels 
like Death's waiting room 
that gets emptier as all 
the people around me 
are the ones I love 
and they leave for a place 
I can't follow them 
when they're called 
and eventually I'll be alone 
because I know I'll be the last 
one summoned just so the ache 
of absence of a life once lived
with some…