I took a moment out today

To think about my life

To see just where my future went

Now that I'm without my wife

Those things once done together

Now too much work for one

The point of each new dawning day

Lost in the rising of the sun

Once intimate, the bed now vast and barren

Rendering sleep but a wretched taunt

Gone the joy of a wakening smile

And solitary meals a memory's haunt

I wandered through cheerless, empty rooms

Seeing triggers everywhere

Is it conceivable to overcome

These moments of despair

Things we both shared in fun

Things of hers things of mine

Now purposely avoided

In a time-frozen shrine

Outdoors nothing is the same

The pleasure of things we used to see

Now viewed with much despondency

Over how empty a crowd can be

My contemplation held no solution

Things will continue on as such

And though I'd deny it to my death, I ask

Was it possible I loved too much