Love Poem: It's That Time
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Written by: Line Gauthier

It's That Time

how sweet the sound
that gently resonates
clear to my heart

we’ll hang up
it’s late
and go to bed
you to yours 
and I to mine

still how sweet the sound
of ‘let’s go to bed’
there’s a togetherness to it
that’s comforting

so me and that togetherness
head off to bed
feeling infinitely less alone

and somehow it’s not that scary
this togetherness that feels
so right on one hand yet
quasi insane on the other

till the real question surfaces
how can a widow
love the widower?

two shattered hearts
rescuing each other
in the night
how does…
a widow love a widower?

united in their grief
yet their stories all so different
till a simple ‘let’s go to bed’
brings comfort to each other
and we are through the darkness
not alone



AP: 3rd place 2022

Posted on November 2, 2021