Christmas Day
Photo by Nik Shuliahin on Unsplash
Another day spent reaching people from afar
yet the one so near is closed off from me.
How did I get to this place of no family?
Who held it together by the strings that dissolved
the moment you died?
For the family was broken before you left.
Now we are just jagged pieces being swept up
one by one and dumped into the trash bin.
— Nicole Barden 12/25/2020
