Dying Inside

Your husband no longer laughs
as he thinks laughter is a joke
spoken by a ghost without a name.

Your husband neither closes his eyes
when you kiss him at night
when you ask him why,
he says his love is no longer blind.

Your husband loves tending flowers
and talks about how birds are flowers
that learnt how to fly
by reaching for the sky.

Your husband says these things
you wish you can understand
your husband does these things
you know you'll never understand.

He wakes at 2AM to write poems
he never reads out loud
talks about how he used to be a poet
before his body became a morgue.

Your husband goes to your daughter's room
and cries himself to sleep
When he wakes
you ask him what's wrong
he says nothing, he just wants to forget.

Your husband is dying
you can see it in the look in his eyes
but you just don't understand
what exactly is killing him inside.

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