Sediment

Every day without you

is a layer,

thin as nothing on its own

I didn't notice the weight

until I noticed

how deep I'd grown

under all of them.

Years

become strata.

Strata become stone.

I am being built out of an absence,

one grain at a time,

alone.

Sediment.

Everything

settles if you leave it long enough.

Sediment.

I didn't choose to become a record of this.

I just didn't move.

They say time

heals,

I say time just adds more weight

on top

compresses what's underneath until it hardens,

until it stops

being something that hurts and starts being something that holds the shape

of everything it buried,

every story it was told

Sediment.

Everything settles if you leave it long enough.

Sediment.

I didn't choose to become a record of this.

I just didn't move.