POEM: How It Goes

This is how it goes
Me this old shoe
Scuffing around the house
Without you –
This is how it happens
I imagine the moment,
Calling 911,
Calling famiy,
What do I say
And how do I say it
I never thought you would go on
You were never
So adventurous –
This is how it goes
How lives cleave
Rip apart
Like a geologic fault.