In bed alone,
I think of all we
once were.
Your warm body
pressed into mine,
safe from the world
in our midnight cocoon.
A connection
I thought sacred.
Folly.
In the solitary dark
I feel
the taint
and sting
of your betrayal.
For you have taken
the last of me
and
a loneliness
such as this
I have never
truly known.
So I lie
beside strangers
longing
to feel
something.
The sun is setting,
the fight
has left me
and the jaws
of the world
have me.