Dr. Wise Money

If you won’t eat anymore

how will I show you love?

If you won’t speak

how could I fathom?

If you weren’t here anymore

how will I substantiate

loving you?

No, it’s never the same cliche

The living do not worry about going on

The left behind have no use-ful/for

thoughts of what if

The loss is simply that

you would not be loved

as you had been

if you weren’t here anymore.

This, in particular,

is what of (the) living,

which feels challenging and significant.