If I could stay in this place
just for a while,
I think I could be happy
if even for a brief time.

If I could hear your voice once again,
talk to me, laugh, I don’t care,
as long as I could listen, forever,
to the cadences.

I don’t think I can go on
any further than this,
for I will fall
deeper than I already have.

© Johanna Fugitt 2017