A tear slides down her cheek as she tries to hide her eyes

She doesn’t want the kids to see the pool of them

Gathering in her face

She’s sad and lonely to see them go. Every morning that’s the same story, that’s how it goes.

She closes the door and now the dam has broken

She no longer can contain the water works and words in her heart unspoken.

How she wishes her love was here to hold her near. But no, those words though uttered he wouldn’t hear. She asked him to stay at least for today, but work comes first for her lover dear, even if she was clinging to those 3 words and in fear of being alone in tears.

She’s alone all day with her thoughts and her pain as companionship; These walls seem all consuming, the bed so very alluring and time and days just goes by...