We write about widowhood as we live it. Together we examine the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of life as a widowed person. The views expressed here are those held by each individual author. We take no credit for their brillance; we just provide them with a forum for expressing their widowed journey in words that are uniquely their own.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
circles
not long after
the darkness fell
upon us,
i came up with
an arbitrary goal…
wear them one day
longer than
her.
but this wasn’t the
first time i let
some unspoken goal
determine my behavior.
no,
giving myself
a personal challenge that
eventually becomes
a near obsessive compulsive disorder,
this is a problem
i’ve always had.
like that time
as a kid when
i decided that everything
had to be done
an even number of times.
or that time
i wondered how
long i could go without
drinking soda,
(six years, five months and twenty five days).
but there’s nothing magical
about any of this.
about 947 days,
so 743 it was.
she would have been
surprised that i’d made
it this long
with them.
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