Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ 5 Stages of Grief

by Dana Tuohey

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1
I don’t know you -
Wanting to find out is 
Out of the question.
We live on opposite hemispheres;
Meeting at the equator
Would be a waste of jet fuel.

2
And when I think of you
I fill up like a lavaballoon;
My guts thrown to the side.
It’s like the feeling I got on
The car ride every morning on the
Way to school and my dad
Would hit that bump in
The road. I held my breath.

3
Please tell me you’re a one time deal.
I’ll go through one big You
If it saves me the heartache of a million
Smaller You’s. Tell me it’s just
This one. I will do anything.

4
There’s nothing you could have done
To get me out of bed in the morning.
There’s a giant magnet in the center
Of the earth in the form of gravity, sure, 
But it’s nothing compared
To the one under the floor
Drawing the heavy, sleepy other pole
Of my body closer.

5
What more is there to say when it snows in April
Then what the dead guys have already written?
At least I have my house, 
At least I have my self.

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