Poems of Loss

ME AND YOU
June 1986
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I keep thinking

About you

About me

About us
Is there an us?
Or is it just you

And me?
I keep wanting to say

That's it
I can't take anymore
I can't handle this
But without you I would be

Nothing
Not even me
Because so much of you
Has become me
And if you take it away
What would there be
But an empty me?
And I am nothing now

Without you