She sits and stares at the walls. Where has her life gone, sucked into those walls never to return. She calls to her God, but it's too late, the years cannot return and refill the void.

She remains sitting and hears the noise but doesn't listen. She has heard it all before. Too old now to need teaching how to live.
She sits, her mind numb. Feeling aches and pains where once there was none. It's the emotional hurt that makes her grieve. Yet no tears fall. She has passed that point, many years ago.

She sits and dare not ponder her future. The loneliness extending down the years look bleak. It is too much to bear. Alone within a marriage.

Angel January 2008