What Is Love If You Are Gone?

 

If you were gone,

Days would seem endless

And nights even more so.

 

I would have to call repairmen

And car mechanics

And financial planners.

 

I would have to eat all the vegetables

By myself

And the chocolate cake.

 

Without you, love would be a treadmill

Going, going, going

But never getting anywhere.

 

What is love without you—

I don’t want to find out.

 

Cindy Herndon