Easy

These dry words

crankled dry painful

Into my ears

just and only waves

nodding, I hear you

1-3 word limit

without wonder or surprise

that you both suffer

in your own time

I’m sorry

for all of us

even if I’m just

collateral damage

to the accumulated

expression of your

near indifference

your cold quiet gaze

and the yearning stillness

you have left me.