Last words

‘Sigh’ is such a wonderful word

Onomatopoeia at its glittery best

A good ‘Sigh’ beats a grunt, moan

Or whine any day

The swift utterance of wordless breath absent of comment or statement

Yet speaking volumes when timed correctly,

A sigh can be sexy, sibilant or sombre

Occasionally staccato

Never silent

We spoke, you and I

And at the last

You sighed.

So much said in so little

That sigh follows me,

I hear it in the wind and in the water

And yet that was the last you said

So I cannot ask -was your sigh meant for me, for what I said or was it meant for the world we inhabited together

For a time.