The Leaving

Poetry

By Maya Kavita Last updated Apr 1, 2022

The Leaving

You made a promise to be here.
But even that is over.

You were the parent that birthed me into new life.
But even that is over.

You were the child that sweetened my memory with innocence.
But even that is over.

You were the friend that laughed me into joy.
But even that is over.

You were in my soul, breathing meaning into the emptiness.
But even that is over.

You left me in the desert, my water gone, my flesh dust.
I would say goodbye.
But even that is over.

The Leaving was first published in Outsourced by the author

Empathy Poem

Maya Kavita

Maya Kavita (J. I. Kendall aka Joan Weston) worked for many years in the IT industry. She began writing with her books, The Greater-Than-Riches mystery series. Based in Toronto, Maya says, “I spent many years in an HR job, helping our company downsize. My work was harder than George Clooney’s in the movie Up in The Air because I had to fire a lot of people that I had hired and trained, whose families I had met. I even had to choose who would be fired. I had to help them carry their personal belongings to the door, and I searched their boxes while they watched because I was instructed to make sure they hadn’t stolen anything from us. I write from my experiences.”

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