Must I Outlive You?

Must I outlive the one I love?
I pray that this can't be.
To wither slowly through old age
will leave my heart empty.

I do not wish to outlive you.
But this is beyond my control.
I have lived my life to please you
and without you I'm not whole.

Little bits and pieces of me
are ingrained in who we were.
They fit together like a puzzle
or the patches on a comforter.

And so these waking hours
when I contemplate
this stark reality that I now face
I pray ‘tis not my fate.

poem by Edwina Reizer
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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