I wake up some time and for a moment I don’t remember you’re gone. More than once I’ve picked my phone up to call you and then remembered you don’t want to hear from me. Life was challenging with you, but it is awful without you. My heart feels like it is suffocating. C.B.

I felt her absence.
It was like waking up one day
with no teeth in your mouth.
You wouldn’t need to run to the mirror
to know they were gone.
James Dashner