Her voice
asks him to stay.

The gravel crunches as
his car drives away
for the last time.

Her knees hit
the bathroom floor
as she silently starts
to pray.

Fighting to wheeze
between sobs.
Gasping because she cannot exhale
all of him and still
breathe.

Struggling to believe that
one day

she’ll want to inhale again.

– What Breaking Sounds Like, Pt. 1