Drifting idly - Sonnet

My life came to a halt since you had gone;

I lost direction, the purpose to live,

On the chessboard of life, I'm just a pawn.

Feeling spent, empty, with nothing to give.

I miss you. I miss your touch, miss your smile…

I'm aware that nothing lasts forever

And this emptiness will last just a while;

Some peace of mind will return, however,

I seem to be doing nothing else now,

Just moping, groaning, sitting on my butt,

And wrongly believing too that, somehow,

There's nothing else left for me to do, but

Drifting idly, adding fat to my girth,

Waiting for my time to end on this Earth…

© P. J. Oszmann (November 2007)

© Illustration created in Photoshop (2007)