Tears roll down your cheeks
As you welcome in the thieves
Trying to find some peace
As something so dear to you leaves.

Something set in stone
Gets before it’s grown
World is robbed, just keeps going
You do too, thoughts not showing.

Something that you love
As much for it, as how it lives
As quick as a phone hangs up
Becomes past, and not what is.

Tears roll down your cheeks
Forced to welcome in the thieves
Try to find some peace
As you feel a piece of you leave.

Words are at a loss
Something shatters in your chest
Knowing you can never digest the cost
As life is lost, to one who loved it best.

Tears roll down your cheeks
You feel almost guilty in your grief
Knowing what’s been taken from others
Makes your loss, seem minuscule to say the least.

Some you did not know
Beyond words passed from passed lips
Now love in ways you can never show
As love lost, leaves us all our parting gifts.

Tears roll down your cheeks
Forced to welcome in the thieves
Making off with a masterpiece
Making you thankful, for every piece they leave.

Wipe the tears from your cheeks
Pull together fight away the thieves
Just one of many, trying to find some peace
Among the pieces, as a piece, of so many of us leaves.

© Daniel Breslin